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August 2004 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2004, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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August 2004

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in August 2004

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 2004How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  2. 2nd August 2004Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  3. 3rd August 2004What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  4. 4th August 2004Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  5. 5th August 2004What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  6. 6th August 2004Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  7. 7th August 2004Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  8. 8th August 2004What was the Privy Council?
  9. 9th August 2004What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  10. 10th August 2004What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  11. 11th August 2004Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  12. 12th August 2004What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  13. 13th August 2004What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  14. 14th August 2004In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  15. 15th August 2004What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  16. 16th August 2004Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  17. 17th August 2004What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  18. 18th August 2004What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  19. 19th August 2004What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  20. 20th August 2004Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  21. 21st August 2004In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  22. 22nd August 2004Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  23. 23rd August 2004Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  24. 24th August 2004What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  25. 25th August 2004What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  26. 26th August 2004Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  27. 27th August 2004What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  28. 28th August 2004Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  29. 29th August 2004Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  30. 30th August 2004In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  31. 31st August 2004What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?