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July 2023 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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

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July 2023

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 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 July 2023In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  2. 2nd July 2023Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  3. 3rd July 2023In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  4. 4th July 2023What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  5. 5th July 2023In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  6. 6th July 2023Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  7. 7th July 2023Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  8. 8th July 2023Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  9. 9th July 2023Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  10. 10th July 2023In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  11. 11th July 2023Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  12. 12th July 2023Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  13. 13th July 2023What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  14. 14th July 2023Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  15. 15th July 2023Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  16. 16th July 2023Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  17. 17th July 2023What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  18. 18th July 2023Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  19. 19th July 2023In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  20. 20th July 2023What is Passchendaele also known as?
  21. 21st July 2023In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  22. 22nd July 2023What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  23. 23rd July 2023How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  24. 24th July 2023Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  25. 25th July 2023What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  26. 26th July 2023Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  27. 27th July 2023What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  28. 28th July 2023Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  29. 29th July 2023Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  30. 30th July 2023What was the Privy Council?
  31. 31st July 2023What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?