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March 2000 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in March 2000, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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March 2000

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2000

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

  1. 1st March 2000Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  2. 2nd March 2000What was the Privy Council?
  3. 3rd March 2000What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  4. 4th March 2000What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  5. 5th March 2000Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  6. 6th March 2000What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  7. 7th March 2000What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  8. 8th March 2000In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  9. 9th March 2000In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  10. 10th March 2000By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  11. 11th March 2000What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  12. 12th March 2000What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  13. 13th March 2000What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  14. 14th March 2000Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  15. 15th March 2000What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  16. 16th March 2000Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  17. 17th March 2000Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  18. 18th March 2000What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  19. 19th March 2000Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  20. 20th March 2000Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  21. 21st March 2000What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  22. 22nd March 2000Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  23. 23rd March 2000Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  24. 24th March 2000Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  25. 25th March 2000Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  26. 26th March 2000What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  27. 27th March 2000What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  28. 28th March 2000What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  29. 29th March 2000Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  30. 30th March 2000What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  31. 31st March 2000In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?