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July 1998 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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July 1998

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 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 July 1998Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  2. 2nd July 1998Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  3. 3rd July 1998Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  4. 4th July 1998Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  5. 5th July 1998What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  6. 6th July 1998What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  7. 7th July 1998What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  8. 8th July 1998Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  9. 9th July 1998What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  10. 10th July 1998In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  11. 11th July 1998Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  12. 12th July 1998When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  13. 13th July 1998What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  14. 14th July 1998What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  15. 15th July 1998In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  16. 16th July 1998What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  17. 17th July 1998Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  18. 18th July 1998What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  19. 19th July 1998How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  20. 20th July 1998Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  21. 21st July 1998Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  22. 22nd July 1998How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  23. 23rd July 1998What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  24. 24th July 1998Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  25. 25th July 1998What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  26. 26th July 1998Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  27. 27th July 1998Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  28. 28th July 1998What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  29. 29th July 1998Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  30. 30th July 1998What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  31. 31st July 1998Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?