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April 2019 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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April 2019

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 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 April 2019Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  2. 2nd April 2019Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  3. 3rd April 2019How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  4. 4th April 2019What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  5. 5th April 2019Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  6. 6th April 2019What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  7. 7th April 2019Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  8. 8th April 2019Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  9. 9th April 2019What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  10. 10th April 2019Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  11. 11th April 2019What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  12. 12th April 2019Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  13. 13th April 2019Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  14. 14th April 2019What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  15. 15th April 2019Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  16. 16th April 2019How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  17. 17th April 2019Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  18. 18th April 2019What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  19. 19th April 2019Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  20. 20th April 2019In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  21. 21st April 2019Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  22. 22nd April 2019What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  23. 23rd April 2019In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  24. 24th April 2019What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  25. 25th April 2019In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  26. 26th April 2019What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  27. 27th April 2019In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  28. 28th April 2019Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  29. 29th April 2019In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  30. 30th April 2019What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?