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April 2001 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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April 2001

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 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 April 2001What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  2. 2nd April 2001Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  3. 3rd April 2001In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  4. 4th April 2001What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  5. 5th April 2001Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  6. 6th April 2001Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  7. 7th April 2001How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  8. 8th April 2001When did Germany formally reunify?
  9. 9th April 2001What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  10. 10th April 2001What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  11. 11th April 2001Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  12. 12th April 2001Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  13. 13th April 2001Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  14. 14th April 2001Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  15. 15th April 2001Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  16. 16th April 2001Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  17. 17th April 2001Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  18. 18th April 2001What was a Gauleiter?
  19. 19th April 2001What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  20. 20th April 2001How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  21. 21st April 2001Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  22. 22nd April 2001What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  23. 23rd April 2001On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  24. 24th April 2001What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  25. 25th April 2001Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  26. 26th April 2001What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  27. 27th April 2001In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  28. 28th April 2001What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  29. 29th April 2001In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  30. 30th April 2001What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?