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October 2020 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2020, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2020Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 2nd October 2020What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 3rd October 2020Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 4th October 2020Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 5th October 2020In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 6th October 2020What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 7th October 2020How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 8th October 2020Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 9th October 2020What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 10th October 2020On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 11th October 2020Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 12th October 2020Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 13th October 2020What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 14th October 2020In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 15th October 2020In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 16th October 2020In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 17th October 2020Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 18th October 2020In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 19th October 2020Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 20th October 2020In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 21st October 2020What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 22nd October 2020Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 23rd October 2020In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 24th October 2020Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 25th October 2020When did Germany formally reunify?
- 26th October 2020What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 27th October 2020Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 28th October 2020Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 29th October 2020Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 30th October 2020Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 31st October 2020Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.