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March 2016 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in March 2016, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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March 2016

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2016

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

  1. 1st March 2016What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  2. 2nd March 2016Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  3. 3rd March 2016What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  4. 4th March 2016Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  5. 5th March 2016On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  6. 6th March 2016Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  7. 7th March 2016Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  8. 8th March 2016What was the Privy Council?
  9. 9th March 2016What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  10. 10th March 2016In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  11. 11th March 2016Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  12. 12th March 2016Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  13. 13th March 2016What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  14. 14th March 2016In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  15. 15th March 2016In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  16. 16th March 2016What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  17. 17th March 2016What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  18. 18th March 2016What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  19. 19th March 2016What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  20. 20th March 2016When did Germany formally reunify?
  21. 21st March 2016What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  22. 22nd March 2016Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  23. 23rd March 2016Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  24. 24th March 2016What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  25. 25th March 2016Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  26. 26th March 2016Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  27. 27th March 2016Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  28. 28th March 2016Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  29. 29th March 2016Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  30. 30th March 2016What was a Gauleiter?
  31. 31st March 2016What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?