Daily Practice · GCSE History
April 2005 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in April 2005, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in April 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2005What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 2nd April 2005On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 3rd April 2005Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 4th April 2005Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 5th April 2005What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 6th April 2005In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 7th April 2005In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 8th April 2005In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 9th April 2005Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 10th April 2005In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 11th April 2005Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 12th April 2005In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 13th April 2005What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 14th April 2005Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 15th April 2005In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 16th April 2005Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 17th April 2005When did Germany formally reunify?
- 18th April 2005What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 19th April 2005Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 20th April 2005Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 21st April 2005Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 22nd April 2005Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 23rd April 2005Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 24th April 2005Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 25th April 2005What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 26th April 2005In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 27th April 2005What was a Gauleiter?
- 28th April 2005What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 29th April 2005Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 30th April 2005What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?