Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 2000 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2000, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2000What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 2nd August 2000In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 3rd August 2000What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 4th August 2000In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 5th August 2000Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 6th August 2000What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 7th August 2000Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 8th August 2000Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 9th August 2000In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 10th August 2000Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 11th August 2000Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 12th August 2000In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 13th August 2000Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 14th August 2000Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 15th August 2000Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 16th August 2000What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 17th August 2000Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 18th August 2000What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 19th August 2000What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 20th August 2000In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 21st August 2000In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 22nd August 2000What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 23rd August 2000Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 24th August 2000What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 25th August 2000Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 26th August 2000On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 27th August 2000Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 28th August 2000Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 29th August 2000What was the Privy Council?
- 30th August 2000What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 31st August 2000In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?