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September 2016 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in September 2016, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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September 2016

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 2016

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 2016What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  2. 2nd September 2016Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  3. 3rd September 2016Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  4. 4th September 2016What was the Privy Council?
  5. 5th September 2016What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  6. 6th September 2016What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  7. 7th September 2016Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  8. 8th September 2016What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  9. 9th September 2016What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  10. 10th September 2016In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  11. 11th September 2016What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  12. 12th September 2016Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  13. 13th September 2016What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  14. 14th September 2016What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  15. 15th September 2016What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  16. 16th September 2016Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  17. 17th September 2016In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  18. 18th September 2016Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  19. 19th September 2016Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  20. 20th September 2016What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  21. 21st September 2016What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  22. 22nd September 2016Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  23. 23rd September 2016What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  24. 24th September 2016Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  25. 25th September 2016Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  26. 26th September 2016In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  27. 27th September 2016What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  28. 28th September 2016What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  29. 29th September 2016What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  30. 30th September 2016What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?