Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2016 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2016, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2016On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 2nd October 2016Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 3rd October 2016In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 4th October 2016Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 5th October 2016When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 6th October 2016In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 7th October 2016What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 8th October 2016Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 9th October 2016What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 10th October 2016Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 11th October 2016In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 12th October 2016What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 13th October 2016Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 14th October 2016Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 15th October 2016How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 16th October 2016When did Germany formally reunify?
- 17th October 2016What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 18th October 2016What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 19th October 2016Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 20th October 2016Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 21st October 2016Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 22nd October 2016Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 23rd October 2016Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 24th October 2016Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 25th October 2016Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 26th October 2016What was a Gauleiter?
- 27th October 2016What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 28th October 2016How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 29th October 2016Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 30th October 2016What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 31st October 2016On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?