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September 2013 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in September 2013, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in September 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2013Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 2nd September 2013On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 3rd September 2013What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 4th September 2013Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 5th September 2013Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 6th September 2013Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 7th September 2013What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 8th September 2013Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 9th September 2013What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 10th September 2013What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 11th September 2013In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 12th September 2013In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 13th September 2013By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 14th September 2013Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 15th September 2013What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 16th September 2013Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 17th September 2013Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 18th September 2013What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 19th September 2013Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 20th September 2013What was the Privy Council?
- 21st September 2013What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 22nd September 2013Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 23rd September 2013Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 24th September 2013What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 25th September 2013What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 26th September 2013In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 27th September 2013Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 28th September 2013Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 29th September 2013What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 30th September 2013What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?