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January 2015 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2015, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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January 2015

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 2015

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 2015Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  2. 2nd January 2015What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  3. 3rd January 2015Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  4. 4th January 2015Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  5. 5th January 2015In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  6. 6th January 2015What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  7. 7th January 2015What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  8. 8th January 2015What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  9. 9th January 2015What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  10. 10th January 2015On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  11. 11th January 2015Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  12. 12th January 2015In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  13. 13th January 2015Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  14. 14th January 2015When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  15. 15th January 2015In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  16. 16th January 2015What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  17. 17th January 2015Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  18. 18th January 2015What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  19. 19th January 2015Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  20. 20th January 2015In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  21. 21st January 2015What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  22. 22nd January 2015Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  23. 23rd January 2015Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  24. 24th January 2015How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  25. 25th January 2015When did Germany formally reunify?
  26. 26th January 2015What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  27. 27th January 2015What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  28. 28th January 2015Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  29. 29th January 2015Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  30. 30th January 2015Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  31. 31st January 2015Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.