Daily Practice · GCSE History
September 2011 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in September 2011, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in September 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2011What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 2nd September 2011In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 3rd September 2011What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 4th September 2011In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 5th September 2011What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 6th September 2011In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 7th September 2011Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 8th September 2011In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 9th September 2011By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 10th September 2011Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 11th September 2011In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 12th September 2011Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 13th September 2011Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 14th September 2011What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 15th September 2011Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 16th September 2011Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 17th September 2011Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 18th September 2011Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 19th September 2011Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 20th September 2011What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 21st September 2011What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 22nd September 2011In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 23rd September 2011Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 24th September 2011Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 25th September 2011Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 26th September 2011What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 27th September 2011Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 28th September 2011Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 29th September 2011What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 30th September 2011Who were Elizabeth's parents?