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February 2002 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in February 2002, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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February 2002

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in February 2002

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 2002Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  2. 2nd February 2002On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  3. 3rd February 2002Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  4. 4th February 2002Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  5. 5th February 2002Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  6. 6th February 2002Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  7. 7th February 2002In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  8. 8th February 2002Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  9. 9th February 2002Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  10. 10th February 2002What is Passchendaele also known as?
  11. 11th February 2002In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  12. 12th February 2002In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  13. 13th February 2002What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  14. 14th February 2002Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  15. 15th February 2002What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  16. 16th February 2002Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  17. 17th February 2002When did Germany formally reunify?
  18. 18th February 2002What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  19. 19th February 2002Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  20. 20th February 2002What was the Privy Council?
  21. 21st February 2002What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  22. 22nd February 2002Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  23. 23rd February 2002Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  24. 24th February 2002Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  25. 25th February 2002What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  26. 26th February 2002In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  27. 27th February 2002What was a Gauleiter?
  28. 28th February 2002What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?