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November 2017 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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November 2017

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 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 November 2017In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  2. 2nd November 2017What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  3. 3rd November 2017In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  4. 4th November 2017Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  5. 5th November 2017What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  6. 6th November 2017Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  7. 7th November 2017Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  8. 8th November 2017In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  9. 9th November 2017Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  10. 10th November 2017Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  11. 11th November 2017In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  12. 12th November 2017Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  13. 13th November 2017Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  14. 14th November 2017Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  15. 15th November 2017What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  16. 16th November 2017Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  17. 17th November 2017What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  18. 18th November 2017What is Passchendaele also known as?
  19. 19th November 2017In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  20. 20th November 2017In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  21. 21st November 2017What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  22. 22nd November 2017Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  23. 23rd November 2017What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  24. 24th November 2017Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  25. 25th November 2017On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  26. 26th November 2017Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  27. 27th November 2017Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  28. 28th November 2017What was the Privy Council?
  29. 29th November 2017What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  30. 30th November 2017In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?