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September 2017 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in September 2017, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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September 2017

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 2017

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 2017Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  2. 2nd September 2017Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  3. 3rd September 2017Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  4. 4th September 2017What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  5. 5th September 2017In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  6. 6th September 2017What was a Gauleiter?
  7. 7th September 2017What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  8. 8th September 2017What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  9. 9th September 2017What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  10. 10th September 2017What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  11. 11th September 2017On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  12. 12th September 2017What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  13. 13th September 2017Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  14. 14th September 2017Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  15. 15th September 2017What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  16. 16th September 2017What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  17. 17th September 2017Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  18. 18th September 2017What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  19. 19th September 2017Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  20. 20th September 2017Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  21. 21st September 2017In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  22. 22nd September 2017By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  23. 23rd September 2017What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  24. 24th September 2017What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  25. 25th September 2017What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  26. 26th September 2017Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  27. 27th September 2017What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  28. 28th September 2017In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  29. 29th September 2017Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  30. 30th September 2017When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?