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January 2014 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2014, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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January 2014

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 2014

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

  1. 1st January 2014What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  2. 2nd January 2014Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  3. 3rd January 2014Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  4. 4th January 2014What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  5. 5th January 2014Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  6. 6th January 2014Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  7. 7th January 2014What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  8. 8th January 2014Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  9. 9th January 2014Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  10. 10th January 2014Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  11. 11th January 2014Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  12. 12th January 2014What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  13. 13th January 2014What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  14. 14th January 2014What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  15. 15th January 2014Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  16. 16th January 2014What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  17. 17th January 2014In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  18. 18th January 2014Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  19. 19th January 2014When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  20. 20th January 2014What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  21. 21st January 2014What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  22. 22nd January 2014In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  23. 23rd January 2014What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  24. 24th January 2014Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  25. 25th January 2014What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  26. 26th January 2014How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  27. 27th January 2014Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  28. 28th January 2014Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  29. 29th January 2014How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  30. 30th January 2014What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  31. 31st January 2014Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.