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August 2011 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2011, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2011In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 2nd August 2011Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 3rd August 2011When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 4th August 2011In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 5th August 2011What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 6th August 2011Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 7th August 2011What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 8th August 2011Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 9th August 2011In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 10th August 2011What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 11th August 2011Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 12th August 2011Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 13th August 2011How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 14th August 2011When did Germany formally reunify?
- 15th August 2011What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 16th August 2011What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 17th August 2011Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 18th August 2011Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 19th August 2011Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 20th August 2011Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 21st August 2011Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 22nd August 2011Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 23rd August 2011Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 24th August 2011What was a Gauleiter?
- 25th August 2011What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 26th August 2011How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 27th August 2011Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 28th August 2011What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 29th August 2011On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 30th August 2011What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 31st August 2011Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?