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October 2012 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2012, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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October 2012

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in October 2012

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

  1. 1st October 2012In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  2. 2nd October 2012In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  3. 3rd October 2012What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  4. 4th October 2012What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  5. 5th October 2012What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  6. 6th October 2012What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  7. 7th October 2012When did Germany formally reunify?
  8. 8th October 2012What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  9. 9th October 2012Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  10. 10th October 2012Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  11. 11th October 2012What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  12. 12th October 2012Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  13. 13th October 2012Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  14. 14th October 2012Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  15. 15th October 2012Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  16. 16th October 2012Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  17. 17th October 2012What was a Gauleiter?
  18. 18th October 2012What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  19. 19th October 2012What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  20. 20th October 2012What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  21. 21st October 2012What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  22. 22nd October 2012On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  23. 23rd October 2012What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  24. 24th October 2012In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  25. 25th October 2012Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  26. 26th October 2012When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  27. 27th October 2012What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  28. 28th October 2012What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  29. 29th October 2012What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  30. 30th October 2012What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  31. 31st October 2012Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?