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January 2011 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2011, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2011On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 2nd January 2011Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 3rd January 2011Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 4th January 2011What was the Privy Council?
- 5th January 2011What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 6th January 2011In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 7th January 2011Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 8th January 2011Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 9th January 2011What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 10th January 2011In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 11th January 2011In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 12th January 2011What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 13th January 2011What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 14th January 2011What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 15th January 2011What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 16th January 2011When did Germany formally reunify?
- 17th January 2011What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 18th January 2011Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 19th January 2011Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 20th January 2011What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 21st January 2011Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 22nd January 2011Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 23rd January 2011Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 24th January 2011Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 25th January 2011Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 26th January 2011What was a Gauleiter?
- 27th January 2011What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 28th January 2011What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 29th January 2011What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 30th January 2011What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 31st January 2011On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?