Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2011 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2011, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2011What was the Privy Council?
- 2nd October 2011What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 3rd October 2011What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 4th October 2011Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 5th October 2011In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 6th October 2011What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 7th October 2011In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 8th October 2011What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 9th October 2011How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 10th October 2011What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 11th October 2011What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 12th October 2011What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 13th October 2011What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 14th October 2011Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 15th October 2011Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 16th October 2011Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 17th October 2011What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 18th October 2011What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 19th October 2011Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 20th October 2011What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 21st October 2011Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 22nd October 2011Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 23rd October 2011What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 24th October 2011Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 25th October 2011What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 26th October 2011What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 27th October 2011What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 28th October 2011Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 29th October 2011In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 30th October 2011In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 31st October 2011Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.