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August 2006 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2006, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2006Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 2nd August 2006In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 3rd August 2006What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 4th August 2006In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 5th August 2006What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 6th August 2006How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 7th August 2006What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 8th August 2006What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 9th August 2006What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 10th August 2006What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 11th August 2006Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 12th August 2006Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 13th August 2006Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 14th August 2006What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 15th August 2006What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 16th August 2006Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 17th August 2006What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 18th August 2006Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 19th August 2006Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 20th August 2006What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 21st August 2006Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 22nd August 2006What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 23rd August 2006What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 24th August 2006What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 25th August 2006Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 26th August 2006In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 27th August 2006In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 28th August 2006Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 29th August 2006When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 30th August 2006What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 31st August 2006What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?