Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2014 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2014, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2014What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 2nd October 2014In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 3rd October 2014Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 4th October 2014Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 5th October 2014Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 6th October 2014Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 7th October 2014In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 8th October 2014What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 9th October 2014What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 10th October 2014What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 11th October 2014What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 12th October 2014When did Germany formally reunify?
- 13th October 2014What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 14th October 2014In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 15th October 2014Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 16th October 2014When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 17th October 2014Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 18th October 2014What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 19th October 2014Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 20th October 2014What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 21st October 2014Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 22nd October 2014What was a Gauleiter?
- 23rd October 2014What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 24th October 2014Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 25th October 2014Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 26th October 2014How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 27th October 2014On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 28th October 2014What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 29th October 2014What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 30th October 2014Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 31st October 2014Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.