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July 2014 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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July 2014

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 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 July 2014Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  2. 2nd July 2014Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  3. 3rd July 2014What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  4. 4th July 2014Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  5. 5th July 2014Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  6. 6th July 2014Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  7. 7th July 2014Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  8. 8th July 2014Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  9. 9th July 2014What was a Gauleiter?
  10. 10th July 2014What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  11. 11th July 2014What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  12. 12th July 2014What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  13. 13th July 2014What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  14. 14th July 2014On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  15. 15th July 2014What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  16. 16th July 2014In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  17. 17th July 2014Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  18. 18th July 2014When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  19. 19th July 2014What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  20. 20th July 2014What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  21. 21st July 2014What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  22. 22nd July 2014What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  23. 23rd July 2014Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  24. 24th July 2014In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  25. 25th July 2014By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  26. 26th July 2014Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  27. 27th July 2014Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  28. 28th July 2014How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  29. 29th July 2014Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  30. 30th July 2014What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  31. 31st July 2014What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?