Daily Practice · GCSE History
November 2016 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in November 2016, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in November 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2016What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 2nd November 2016Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 3rd November 2016What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 4th November 2016In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 5th November 2016What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 6th November 2016In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 7th November 2016What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 8th November 2016In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 9th November 2016Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 10th November 2016In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 11th November 2016By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 12th November 2016Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 13th November 2016In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 14th November 2016Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 15th November 2016Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 16th November 2016What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 17th November 2016Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 18th November 2016Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 19th November 2016Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 20th November 2016Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 21st November 2016Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 22nd November 2016What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 23rd November 2016What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 24th November 2016In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 25th November 2016Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 26th November 2016Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 27th November 2016Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 28th November 2016What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 29th November 2016Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 30th November 2016Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?