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August 2010 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2010, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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August 2010

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in August 2010

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 2010What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  2. 2nd August 2010What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  3. 3rd August 2010What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  4. 4th August 2010Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  5. 5th August 2010What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  6. 6th August 2010In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  7. 7th August 2010Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  8. 8th August 2010When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  9. 9th August 2010What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  10. 10th August 2010What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  11. 11th August 2010In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  12. 12th August 2010What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  13. 13th August 2010Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  14. 14th August 2010What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  15. 15th August 2010How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  16. 16th August 2010Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  17. 17th August 2010Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  18. 18th August 2010How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  19. 19th August 2010What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  20. 20th August 2010Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  21. 21st August 2010What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  22. 22nd August 2010Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  23. 23rd August 2010Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  24. 24th August 2010What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  25. 25th August 2010Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  26. 26th August 2010What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  27. 27th August 2010Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  28. 28th August 2010Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  29. 29th August 2010What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  30. 30th August 2010Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  31. 31st August 2010How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?