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February 2023 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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February 2023

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in February 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 February 2023What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  2. 2nd February 2023In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  3. 3rd February 2023Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  4. 4th February 2023Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  5. 5th February 2023What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  6. 6th February 2023In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  7. 7th February 2023In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  8. 8th February 2023What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  9. 9th February 2023What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  10. 10th February 2023What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  11. 11th February 2023What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  12. 12th February 2023When did Germany formally reunify?
  13. 13th February 2023What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  14. 14th February 2023Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  15. 15th February 2023Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  16. 16th February 2023What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  17. 17th February 2023Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  18. 18th February 2023Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  19. 19th February 2023Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  20. 20th February 2023Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  21. 21st February 2023Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  22. 22nd February 2023What was a Gauleiter?
  23. 23rd February 2023What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  24. 24th February 2023What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  25. 25th February 2023What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  26. 26th February 2023What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  27. 27th February 2023On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  28. 28th February 2023What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?