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July 2020 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in July 2020, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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July 2020

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 2020

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 2020Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  2. 2nd July 2020In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  3. 3rd July 2020Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  4. 4th July 2020Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  5. 5th July 2020Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  6. 6th July 2020Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  7. 7th July 2020In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  8. 8th July 2020What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  9. 9th July 2020How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  10. 10th July 2020Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  11. 11th July 2020What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  12. 12th July 2020When did Germany formally reunify?
  13. 13th July 2020What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  14. 14th July 2020Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  15. 15th July 2020What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  16. 16th July 2020In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  17. 17th July 2020Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  18. 18th July 2020In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  19. 19th July 2020Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  20. 20th July 2020In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  21. 21st July 2020Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  22. 22nd July 2020What was a Gauleiter?
  23. 23rd July 2020What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  24. 24th July 2020Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  25. 25th July 2020In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  26. 26th July 2020Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  27. 27th July 2020On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  28. 28th July 2020What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  29. 29th July 2020Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  30. 30th July 2020Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  31. 31st July 2020Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?