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July 2017 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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July 2017

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 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 July 2017Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  2. 2nd July 2017When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  3. 3rd July 2017What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  4. 4th July 2017What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  5. 5th July 2017In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  6. 6th July 2017What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  7. 7th July 2017Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  8. 8th July 2017What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  9. 9th July 2017How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  10. 10th July 2017Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  11. 11th July 2017Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  12. 12th July 2017How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  13. 13th July 2017What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  14. 14th July 2017Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  15. 15th July 2017What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  16. 16th July 2017Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  17. 17th July 2017Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  18. 18th July 2017What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  19. 19th July 2017Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  20. 20th July 2017What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  21. 21st July 2017Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  22. 22nd July 2017Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  23. 23rd July 2017What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  24. 24th July 2017Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  25. 25th July 2017How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  26. 26th July 2017Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  27. 27th July 2017What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  28. 28th July 2017Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  29. 29th July 2017In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  30. 30th July 2017Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  31. 31st July 2017What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?