Daily Practice · GCSE History
April 2012 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in April 2012, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in April 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2012Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 2nd April 2012What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 3rd April 2012What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 4th April 2012In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 5th April 2012In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 6th April 2012By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 7th April 2012What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 8th April 2012What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 9th April 2012What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 10th April 2012Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 11th April 2012What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 12th April 2012Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 13th April 2012Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 14th April 2012What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 15th April 2012Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 16th April 2012Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 17th April 2012What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 18th April 2012Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 19th April 2012Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 20th April 2012Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 21st April 2012Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 22nd April 2012What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 23rd April 2012What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 24th April 2012What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 25th April 2012Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 26th April 2012What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 27th April 2012In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 28th April 2012Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 29th April 2012When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 30th April 2012What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?