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January 2019 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2019, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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January 2019

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 2019

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

  1. 1st January 2019Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  2. 2nd January 2019Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  3. 3rd January 2019How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  4. 4th January 2019Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  5. 5th January 2019In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  6. 6th January 2019What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  7. 7th January 2019Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  8. 8th January 2019Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  9. 9th January 2019What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  10. 10th January 2019Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  11. 11th January 2019What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  12. 12th January 2019Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  13. 13th January 2019Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  14. 14th January 2019In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  15. 15th January 2019What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  16. 16th January 2019How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  17. 17th January 2019Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  18. 18th January 2019What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  19. 19th January 2019On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  20. 20th January 2019Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  21. 21st January 2019Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  22. 22nd January 2019What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  23. 23rd January 2019In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  24. 24th January 2019In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  25. 25th January 2019In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  26. 26th January 2019Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  27. 27th January 2019In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  28. 28th January 2019Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  29. 29th January 2019In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  30. 30th January 2019What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  31. 31st January 2019Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.