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February 2001 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in February 2001, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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February 2001

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in February 2001

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

  1. 1st February 2001Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  2. 2nd February 2001Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  3. 3rd February 2001Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  4. 4th February 2001Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  5. 5th February 2001In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  6. 6th February 2001Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  7. 7th February 2001Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  8. 8th February 2001What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  9. 9th February 2001Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  10. 10th February 2001Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  11. 11th February 2001Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  12. 12th February 2001What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  13. 13th February 2001Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  14. 14th February 2001In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  15. 15th February 2001What is Passchendaele also known as?
  16. 16th February 2001In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  17. 17th February 2001What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  18. 18th February 2001How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  19. 19th February 2001Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  20. 20th February 2001What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  21. 21st February 2001Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  22. 22nd February 2001What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  23. 23rd February 2001Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  24. 24th February 2001Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  25. 25th February 2001What was the Privy Council?
  26. 26th February 2001What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  27. 27th February 2001What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  28. 28th February 2001Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?