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June 2012 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in June 2012, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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June 2012

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in June 2012

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st June 2012What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  2. 2nd June 2012In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  3. 3rd June 2012Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  4. 4th June 2012In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  5. 5th June 2012What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  6. 6th June 2012Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  7. 7th June 2012In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  8. 8th June 2012Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  9. 9th June 2012On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  10. 10th June 2012Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  11. 11th June 2012Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  12. 12th June 2012Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  13. 13th June 2012Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  14. 14th June 2012In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  15. 15th June 2012Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  16. 16th June 2012Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  17. 17th June 2012What is Passchendaele also known as?
  18. 18th June 2012In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  19. 19th June 2012In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  20. 20th June 2012What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  21. 21st June 2012Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  22. 22nd June 2012What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  23. 23rd June 2012Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  24. 24th June 2012When did Germany formally reunify?
  25. 25th June 2012What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  26. 26th June 2012Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  27. 27th June 2012What was the Privy Council?
  28. 28th June 2012What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  29. 29th June 2012Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  30. 30th June 2012Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?