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April 2026 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in April 2026, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in April 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2026Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 2nd April 2026In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 3rd April 2026Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 4th April 2026Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 5th April 2026What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 6th April 2026In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 7th April 2026In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 8th April 2026What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 9th April 2026Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 10th April 2026What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 11th April 2026Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 12th April 2026When did Germany formally reunify?
- 13th April 2026What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 14th April 2026Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 15th April 2026What was the Privy Council?
- 16th April 2026What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 17th April 2026Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 18th April 2026Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 19th April 2026Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 20th April 2026What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 21st April 2026In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 22nd April 2026What was a Gauleiter?
- 23rd April 2026What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 24th April 2026What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 25th April 2026What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 26th April 2026What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 27th April 2026On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 28th April 2026What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 29th April 2026Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 30th April 2026Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?