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January 1998 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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January 1998

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 1998

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

  1. 1st January 1998What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  2. 2nd January 1998Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  3. 3rd January 1998Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  4. 4th January 1998What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  5. 5th January 1998Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  6. 6th January 1998What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  7. 7th January 1998What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  8. 8th January 1998What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  9. 9th January 1998Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  10. 10th January 1998In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  11. 11th January 1998In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  12. 12th January 1998Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  13. 13th January 1998When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  14. 14th January 1998What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  15. 15th January 1998What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  16. 16th January 1998What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  17. 17th January 1998What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  18. 18th January 1998Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  19. 19th January 1998In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  20. 20th January 1998What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  21. 21st January 1998Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  22. 22nd January 1998Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  23. 23rd January 1998How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  24. 24th January 1998On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  25. 25th January 1998Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  26. 26th January 1998What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  27. 27th January 1998Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  28. 28th January 1998Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  29. 29th January 1998In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  30. 30th January 1998Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  31. 31st January 1998Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?