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November 2010 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in November 2010, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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November 2010

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 2010

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 2010What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  2. 2nd November 2010Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  3. 3rd November 2010What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  4. 4th November 2010In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  5. 5th November 2010Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  6. 6th November 2010When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  7. 7th November 2010Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  8. 8th November 2010What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  9. 9th November 2010What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  10. 10th November 2010What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  11. 11th November 2010Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  12. 12th November 2010Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  13. 13th November 2010Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  14. 14th November 2010Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  15. 15th November 2010Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  16. 16th November 2010How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  17. 17th November 2010Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  18. 18th November 2010What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  19. 19th November 2010What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  20. 20th November 2010Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  21. 21st November 2010Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  22. 22nd November 2010What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  23. 23rd November 2010Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  24. 24th November 2010In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  25. 25th November 2010Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  26. 26th November 2010Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  27. 27th November 2010What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  28. 28th November 2010How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  29. 29th November 2010How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  30. 30th November 2010Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.