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April 2015 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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April 2015

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 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 April 2015Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  2. 2nd April 2015What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  3. 3rd April 2015Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  4. 4th April 2015Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  5. 5th April 2015What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  6. 6th April 2015Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  7. 7th April 2015What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  8. 8th April 2015What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  9. 9th April 2015What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  10. 10th April 2015Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  11. 11th April 2015In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  12. 12th April 2015In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  13. 13th April 2015Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  14. 14th April 2015When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  15. 15th April 2015What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  16. 16th April 2015What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  17. 17th April 2015What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  18. 18th April 2015What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  19. 19th April 2015Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  20. 20th April 2015In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  21. 21st April 2015What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  22. 22nd April 2015Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  23. 23rd April 2015Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  24. 24th April 2015How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  25. 25th April 2015On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  26. 26th April 2015Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  27. 27th April 2015What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  28. 28th April 2015Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  29. 29th April 2015Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  30. 30th April 2015In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?