Daily Practice · GCSE History
November 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in November 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in November 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2008What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 2nd November 2008Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 3rd November 2008Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 4th November 2008What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 5th November 2008Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 6th November 2008Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 7th November 2008Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 8th November 2008Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 9th November 2008What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 10th November 2008What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 11th November 2008What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 12th November 2008Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 13th November 2008What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 14th November 2008In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 15th November 2008Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 16th November 2008When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 17th November 2008What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 18th November 2008What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 19th November 2008In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 20th November 2008What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 21st November 2008Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 22nd November 2008What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 23rd November 2008How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 24th November 2008Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 25th November 2008Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 26th November 2008How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 27th November 2008What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 28th November 2008Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 29th November 2008What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 30th November 2008Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.