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April 1998 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in April 1998, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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April 1998

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 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 April 1998In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  2. 2nd April 1998Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  3. 3rd April 1998Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  4. 4th April 1998What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  5. 5th April 1998How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  6. 6th April 1998What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  7. 7th April 1998What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  8. 8th April 1998What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  9. 9th April 1998What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  10. 10th April 1998Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  11. 11th April 1998In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  12. 12th April 1998Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  13. 13th April 1998When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  14. 14th April 1998What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  15. 15th April 1998What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  16. 16th April 1998What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  17. 17th April 1998What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  18. 18th April 1998Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  19. 19th April 1998What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  20. 20th April 1998Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  21. 21st April 1998Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  22. 22nd April 1998Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  23. 23rd April 1998How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  24. 24th April 1998Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  25. 25th April 1998In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  26. 26th April 1998What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  27. 27th April 1998Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  28. 28th April 1998Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  29. 29th April 1998What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  30. 30th April 1998Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.