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September 2015 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in September 2015, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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September 2015

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 2015

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

  1. 1st September 2015In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  2. 2nd September 2015What was a Gauleiter?
  3. 3rd September 2015What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  4. 4th September 2015Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  5. 5th September 2015What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  6. 6th September 2015Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  7. 7th September 2015On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  8. 8th September 2015What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  9. 9th September 2015Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  10. 10th September 2015What was the Privy Council?
  11. 11th September 2015What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  12. 12th September 2015What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  13. 13th September 2015Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  14. 14th September 2015What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  15. 15th September 2015What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  16. 16th September 2015In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  17. 17th September 2015In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  18. 18th September 2015By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  19. 19th September 2015What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  20. 20th September 2015What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  21. 21st September 2015What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  22. 22nd September 2015Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  23. 23rd September 2015What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  24. 24th September 2015Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  25. 25th September 2015Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  26. 26th September 2015What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  27. 27th September 2015Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  28. 28th September 2015Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  29. 29th September 2015What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  30. 30th September 2015Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.