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March 2017 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in March 2017, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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March 2017

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2017

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 2017What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  2. 2nd March 2017Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  3. 3rd March 2017What was the Privy Council?
  4. 4th March 2017What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  5. 5th March 2017Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  6. 6th March 2017Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  7. 7th March 2017What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  8. 8th March 2017What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  9. 9th March 2017In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  10. 10th March 2017Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  11. 11th March 2017Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  12. 12th March 2017What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  13. 13th March 2017What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  14. 14th March 2017What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  15. 15th March 2017Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  16. 16th March 2017What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  17. 17th March 2017Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  18. 18th March 2017Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  19. 19th March 2017What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  20. 20th March 2017What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  21. 21st March 2017Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  22. 22nd March 2017In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  23. 23rd March 2017Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  24. 24th March 2017Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  25. 25th March 2017What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  26. 26th March 2017How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  27. 27th March 2017What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  28. 28th March 2017What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  29. 29th March 2017What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  30. 30th March 2017What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  31. 31st March 2017Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.