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April 2020 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in April 2020, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in April 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2020Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 2nd April 2020Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 3rd April 2020Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 4th April 2020Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 5th April 2020Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 6th April 2020Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 7th April 2020Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 8th April 2020What was a Gauleiter?
- 9th April 2020What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 10th April 2020How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 11th April 2020Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 12th April 2020What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 13th April 2020On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 14th April 2020What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 15th April 2020Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 16th April 2020What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 17th April 2020In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 18th April 2020What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 19th April 2020In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 20th April 2020What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 21st April 2020In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 22nd April 2020Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 23rd April 2020In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 24th April 2020By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 25th April 2020Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 26th April 2020In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 27th April 2020Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 28th April 2020Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 29th April 2020What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 30th April 2020Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.