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April 2003 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in April 2003, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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April 2003

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 2003

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 2003Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  2. 2nd April 2003Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  3. 3rd April 2003In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  4. 4th April 2003Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  5. 5th April 2003Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  6. 6th April 2003Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  7. 7th April 2003Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  8. 8th April 2003In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  9. 9th April 2003What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  10. 10th April 2003How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  11. 11th April 2003Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  12. 12th April 2003What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  13. 13th April 2003When did Germany formally reunify?
  14. 14th April 2003What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  15. 15th April 2003Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  16. 16th April 2003What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  17. 17th April 2003In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  18. 18th April 2003Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  19. 19th April 2003In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  20. 20th April 2003Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  21. 21st April 2003In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  22. 22nd April 2003Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  23. 23rd April 2003What was a Gauleiter?
  24. 24th April 2003What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  25. 25th April 2003Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  26. 26th April 2003In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  27. 27th April 2003Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  28. 28th April 2003On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  29. 29th April 2003What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  30. 30th April 2003Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.