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October 2018 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2018, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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October 2018

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in October 2018

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st October 2018In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  2. 2nd October 2018What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  3. 3rd October 2018Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  4. 4th October 2018Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  5. 5th October 2018How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  6. 6th October 2018On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  7. 7th October 2018Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  8. 8th October 2018What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  9. 9th October 2018Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  10. 10th October 2018Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  11. 11th October 2018In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  12. 12th October 2018Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  13. 13th October 2018Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  14. 14th October 2018Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  15. 15th October 2018Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  16. 16th October 2018In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  17. 17th October 2018What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  18. 18th October 2018How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  19. 19th October 2018Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  20. 20th October 2018What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  21. 21st October 2018When did Germany formally reunify?
  22. 22nd October 2018What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  23. 23rd October 2018Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  24. 24th October 2018What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  25. 25th October 2018In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  26. 26th October 2018Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  27. 27th October 2018In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  28. 28th October 2018Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  29. 29th October 2018In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  30. 30th October 2018Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  31. 31st October 2018What was a Gauleiter?