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November 2009 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in November 2009, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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November 2009

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 2009

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st November 2009Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  2. 2nd November 2009In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  3. 3rd November 2009What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  4. 4th November 2009What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  5. 5th November 2009What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  6. 6th November 2009What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  7. 7th November 2009On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  8. 8th November 2009Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  9. 9th November 2009In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  10. 10th November 2009Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  11. 11th November 2009When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  12. 12th November 2009In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  13. 13th November 2009What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  14. 14th November 2009Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  15. 15th November 2009What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  16. 16th November 2009Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  17. 17th November 2009In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  18. 18th November 2009What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  19. 19th November 2009Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  20. 20th November 2009Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  21. 21st November 2009How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  22. 22nd November 2009When did Germany formally reunify?
  23. 23rd November 2009What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  24. 24th November 2009What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  25. 25th November 2009Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  26. 26th November 2009Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  27. 27th November 2009Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  28. 28th November 2009Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  29. 29th November 2009Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  30. 30th November 2009Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?