Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 2005 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2005, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2005What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 2nd August 2005Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 3rd August 2005What was the Privy Council?
- 4th August 2005What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 5th August 2005Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 6th August 2005Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 7th August 2005Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 8th August 2005What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 9th August 2005In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 10th August 2005What was a Gauleiter?
- 11th August 2005What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 12th August 2005What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 13th August 2005What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 14th August 2005What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 15th August 2005On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 16th August 2005What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 17th August 2005Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 18th August 2005Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 19th August 2005What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 20th August 2005What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 21st August 2005Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 22nd August 2005What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 23rd August 2005Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 24th August 2005Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 25th August 2005In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 26th August 2005By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 27th August 2005What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 28th August 2005What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 29th August 2005What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 30th August 2005Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 31st August 2005What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?