Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2015 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2015, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2015Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 2nd October 2015Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 3rd October 2015Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 4th October 2015What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 5th October 2015What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 6th October 2015What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 7th October 2015Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 8th October 2015What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 9th October 2015In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 10th October 2015Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 11th October 2015When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 12th October 2015What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 13th October 2015What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 14th October 2015In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 15th October 2015What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 16th October 2015Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 17th October 2015What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 18th October 2015How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 19th October 2015Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 20th October 2015Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 21st October 2015How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 22nd October 2015What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 23rd October 2015Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 24th October 2015What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 25th October 2015Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 26th October 2015Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 27th October 2015What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 28th October 2015Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 29th October 2015What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 30th October 2015Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 31st October 2015Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.