Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2009 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2009, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2009What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 2nd October 2009In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 3rd October 2009What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 4th October 2009How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 5th October 2009Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 6th October 2009What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 7th October 2009Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 8th October 2009What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 9th October 2009Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 10th October 2009Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 11th October 2009What was the Privy Council?
- 12th October 2009What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 13th October 2009What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 14th October 2009Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 15th October 2009What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 16th October 2009What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 17th October 2009In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 18th October 2009What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 19th October 2009Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 20th October 2009What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 21st October 2009What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 22nd October 2009What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 23rd October 2009Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 24th October 2009In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 25th October 2009Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 26th October 2009Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 27th October 2009What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 28th October 2009What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 29th October 2009Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 30th October 2009What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 31st October 2009Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.