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July 2015 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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July 2015

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 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 July 2015In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  2. 2nd July 2015Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  3. 3rd July 2015Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  4. 4th July 2015What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  5. 5th July 2015How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  6. 6th July 2015What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  7. 7th July 2015What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  8. 8th July 2015What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  9. 9th July 2015What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  10. 10th July 2015Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  11. 11th July 2015In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  12. 12th July 2015Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  13. 13th July 2015When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  14. 14th July 2015What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  15. 15th July 2015What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  16. 16th July 2015What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  17. 17th July 2015What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  18. 18th July 2015Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  19. 19th July 2015What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  20. 20th July 2015Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  21. 21st July 2015Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  22. 22nd July 2015Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  23. 23rd July 2015How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  24. 24th July 2015Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  25. 25th July 2015In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  26. 26th July 2015What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  27. 27th July 2015Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  28. 28th July 2015Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  29. 29th July 2015What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  30. 30th July 2015Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  31. 31st July 2015What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?