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October 2019 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2019, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2019
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2019Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 2nd October 2019What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 3rd October 2019What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 4th October 2019Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 5th October 2019Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 6th October 2019Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 7th October 2019Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 8th October 2019What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 9th October 2019Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 10th October 2019Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 11th October 2019Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 12th October 2019Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 13th October 2019How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 14th October 2019Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 15th October 2019What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 16th October 2019Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 17th October 2019What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 18th October 2019Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 19th October 2019What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 20th October 2019In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 21st October 2019What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 22nd October 2019In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 23rd October 2019In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 24th October 2019In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 25th October 2019Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 26th October 2019What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 27th October 2019How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 28th October 2019Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 29th October 2019In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 30th October 2019Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 31st October 2019What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?