Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2023 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2023, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2023
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2023In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 2nd October 2023What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 3rd October 2023In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 4th October 2023Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 5th October 2023In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 6th October 2023By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 7th October 2023Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 8th October 2023In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 9th October 2023Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 10th October 2023Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 11th October 2023What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 12th October 2023Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 13th October 2023Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 14th October 2023Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 15th October 2023Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 16th October 2023Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 17th October 2023What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 18th October 2023What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 19th October 2023In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 20th October 2023Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 21st October 2023Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 22nd October 2023Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 23rd October 2023What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 24th October 2023Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 25th October 2023Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 26th October 2023What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 27th October 2023Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 28th October 2023What was the Privy Council?
- 29th October 2023What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 30th October 2023What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 31st October 2023Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?