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April 1997 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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April 1997

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 1997

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

  1. 1st April 1997Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  2. 2nd April 1997Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  3. 3rd April 1997What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  4. 4th April 1997Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  5. 5th April 1997Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  6. 6th April 1997Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  7. 7th April 1997Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  8. 8th April 1997Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  9. 9th April 1997What was a Gauleiter?
  10. 10th April 1997What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  11. 11th April 1997What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  12. 12th April 1997What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  13. 13th April 1997What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  14. 14th April 1997On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  15. 15th April 1997What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  16. 16th April 1997In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  17. 17th April 1997Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  18. 18th April 1997When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  19. 19th April 1997What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  20. 20th April 1997What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  21. 21st April 1997What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  22. 22nd April 1997What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  23. 23rd April 1997Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  24. 24th April 1997In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  25. 25th April 1997By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  26. 26th April 1997Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  27. 27th April 1997Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  28. 28th April 1997How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  29. 29th April 1997Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  30. 30th April 1997What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?