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July 2021 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in July 2021, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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July 2021

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 2021

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 2021Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  2. 2nd July 2021Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  3. 3rd July 2021Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  4. 4th July 2021How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  5. 5th July 2021Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  6. 6th July 2021What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  7. 7th July 2021Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  8. 8th July 2021What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  9. 9th July 2021Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  10. 10th July 2021What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  11. 11th July 2021In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  12. 12th July 2021What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  13. 13th July 2021In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  14. 14th July 2021In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  15. 15th July 2021In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  16. 16th July 2021Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  17. 17th July 2021What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  18. 18th July 2021How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  19. 19th July 2021Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  20. 20th July 2021In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  21. 21st July 2021Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  22. 22nd July 2021What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  23. 23rd July 2021Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  24. 24th July 2021Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  25. 25th July 2021Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  26. 26th July 2021Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  27. 27th July 2021What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  28. 28th July 2021Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  29. 29th July 2021What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  30. 30th July 2021What is Passchendaele also known as?
  31. 31st July 2021In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?