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August 2012 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2012, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2012What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 2nd August 2012Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 3rd August 2012Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 4th August 2012Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 5th August 2012Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 6th August 2012Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 7th August 2012How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 8th August 2012Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 9th August 2012What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 10th August 2012What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 11th August 2012Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 12th August 2012Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 13th August 2012What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 14th August 2012Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 15th August 2012In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 16th August 2012Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 17th August 2012Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 18th August 2012What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 19th August 2012How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 20th August 2012How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 21st August 2012Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 22nd August 2012What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 23rd August 2012What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 24th August 2012Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 25th August 2012Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 26th August 2012What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 27th August 2012In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 28th August 2012What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 29th August 2012In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 30th August 2012What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 31st August 2012In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?