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January 2020 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2020, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2020What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 2nd January 2020Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 3rd January 2020Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 4th January 2020What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 5th January 2020Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 6th January 2020What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 7th January 2020Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 8th January 2020Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 9th January 2020In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 10th January 2020By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 11th January 2020How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 12th January 2020Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 13th January 2020What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 14th January 2020Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 15th January 2020What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 16th January 2020Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 17th January 2020What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 18th January 2020In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 19th January 2020Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 20th January 2020In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 21st January 2020What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 22nd January 2020In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 23rd January 2020Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 24th January 2020Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 25th January 2020Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 26th January 2020Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 27th January 2020In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 28th January 2020Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 29th January 2020Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 30th January 2020What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 31st January 2020Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.