Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2008Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 2nd August 2008Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 3rd August 2008What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 4th August 2008What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 5th August 2008Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 6th August 2008In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 7th August 2008Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 8th August 2008Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 9th August 2008What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 10th August 2008How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 11th August 2008What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 12th August 2008What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 13th August 2008What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 14th August 2008What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 15th August 2008Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 16th August 2008In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 17th August 2008Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 18th August 2008When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 19th August 2008What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 20th August 2008What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 21st August 2008What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 22nd August 2008What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 23rd August 2008Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 24th August 2008What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 25th August 2008Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 26th August 2008Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 27th August 2008Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 28th August 2008How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 29th August 2008Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 30th August 2008In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 31st August 2008What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?