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April 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in April 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in April 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2008Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 2nd April 2008What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 3rd April 2008Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 4th April 2008Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 5th April 2008Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 6th April 2008Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 7th April 2008Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 8th April 2008What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 9th April 2008What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 10th April 2008In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 11th April 2008Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 12th April 2008Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 13th April 2008Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 14th April 2008What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 15th April 2008Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 16th April 2008Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 17th April 2008What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 18th April 2008Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 19th April 2008What was the Privy Council?
- 20th April 2008What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 21st April 2008What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 22nd April 2008Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 23rd April 2008In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 24th April 2008What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 25th April 2008In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 26th April 2008What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 27th April 2008How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 28th April 2008What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 29th April 2008What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 30th April 2008What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?