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August 2002 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2002, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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August 2002

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in August 2002

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

  1. 1st August 2002What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  2. 2nd August 2002Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  3. 3rd August 2002Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  4. 4th August 2002Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  5. 5th August 2002Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  6. 6th August 2002What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  7. 7th August 2002Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  8. 8th August 2002What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  9. 9th August 2002What is Passchendaele also known as?
  10. 10th August 2002In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  11. 11th August 2002What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  12. 12th August 2002Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  13. 13th August 2002Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  14. 14th August 2002What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  15. 15th August 2002Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  16. 16th August 2002Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  17. 17th August 2002In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  18. 18th August 2002Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  19. 19th August 2002What was the Privy Council?
  20. 20th August 2002What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  21. 21st August 2002What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  22. 22nd August 2002Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  23. 23rd August 2002What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  24. 24th August 2002What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  25. 25th August 2002In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  26. 26th August 2002In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  27. 27th August 2002What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  28. 28th August 2002What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  29. 29th August 2002What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  30. 30th August 2002What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  31. 31st August 2002On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?