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April 2011 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in April 2011, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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April 2011

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 2011

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 2011Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  2. 2nd April 2011In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  3. 3rd April 2011Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  4. 4th April 2011What was the Privy Council?
  5. 5th April 2011What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  6. 6th April 2011What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  7. 7th April 2011Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  8. 8th April 2011What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  9. 9th April 2011What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  10. 10th April 2011In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  11. 11th April 2011In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  12. 12th April 2011What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  13. 13th April 2011What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  14. 14th April 2011What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  15. 15th April 2011What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  16. 16th April 2011On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  17. 17th April 2011Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  18. 18th April 2011Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  19. 19th April 2011Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  20. 20th April 2011What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  21. 21st April 2011In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  22. 22nd April 2011Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  23. 23rd April 2011Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  24. 24th April 2011Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  25. 25th April 2011Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  26. 26th April 2011In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  27. 27th April 2011What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  28. 28th April 2011What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  29. 29th April 2011What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  30. 30th April 2011What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?