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March 2026 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in March 2026, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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March 2026

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2026

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

  1. 1st March 2026Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  2. 2nd March 2026Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  3. 3rd March 2026What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  4. 4th March 2026Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  5. 5th March 2026What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  6. 6th March 2026Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  7. 7th March 2026Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  8. 8th March 2026What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  9. 9th March 2026Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  10. 10th March 2026How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  11. 11th March 2026Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  12. 12th March 2026What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  13. 13th March 2026Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  14. 14th March 2026In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  15. 15th March 2026Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  16. 16th March 2026What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  17. 17th March 2026In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  18. 18th March 2026What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  19. 19th March 2026In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  20. 20th March 2026What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  21. 21st March 2026In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  22. 22nd March 2026Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  23. 23rd March 2026In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  24. 24th March 2026What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  25. 25th March 2026Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  26. 26th March 2026In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  27. 27th March 2026Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  28. 28th March 2026On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  29. 29th March 2026Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  30. 30th March 2026Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  31. 31st March 2026Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?