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January 2023 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2023, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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January 2023

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 2023

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st January 2023What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  2. 2nd January 2023In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  3. 3rd January 2023What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  4. 4th January 2023In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  5. 5th January 2023What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  6. 6th January 2023In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  7. 7th January 2023Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  8. 8th January 2023What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  9. 9th January 2023Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  10. 10th January 2023Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  11. 11th January 2023In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  12. 12th January 2023Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  13. 13th January 2023Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  14. 14th January 2023In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  15. 15th January 2023Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  16. 16th January 2023Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  17. 17th January 2023Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  18. 18th January 2023What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  19. 19th January 2023Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  20. 20th January 2023What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  21. 21st January 2023What is Passchendaele also known as?
  22. 22nd January 2023In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  23. 23rd January 2023In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  24. 24th January 2023What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  25. 25th January 2023Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  26. 26th January 2023What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  27. 27th January 2023Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  28. 28th January 2023On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  29. 29th January 2023Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  30. 30th January 2023Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  31. 31st January 2023What was the Privy Council?