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April 2023 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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April 2023

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 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 April 2023What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  2. 2nd April 2023In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  3. 3rd April 2023What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  4. 4th April 2023In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  5. 5th April 2023In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  6. 6th April 2023In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  7. 7th April 2023Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  8. 8th April 2023What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  9. 9th April 2023How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  10. 10th April 2023Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  11. 11th April 2023In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  12. 12th April 2023Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  13. 13th April 2023What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  14. 14th April 2023Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  15. 15th April 2023Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  16. 16th April 2023Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  17. 17th April 2023Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  18. 18th April 2023What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  19. 19th April 2023Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  20. 20th April 2023What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  21. 21st April 2023What is Passchendaele also known as?
  22. 22nd April 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 April 2023What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  24. 24th April 2023Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  25. 25th April 2023Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  26. 26th April 2023What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  27. 27th April 2023Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  28. 28th April 2023Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  29. 29th April 2023In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  30. 30th April 2023Who were Elizabeth's parents?