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August 2013 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2013, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2013Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 2nd August 2013How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 3rd August 2013On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 4th August 2013Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 5th August 2013What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 6th August 2013Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 7th August 2013Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 8th August 2013In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 9th August 2013Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 10th August 2013Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 11th August 2013Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 12th August 2013Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 13th August 2013In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 14th August 2013What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 15th August 2013How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 16th August 2013Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 17th August 2013What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 18th August 2013When did Germany formally reunify?
- 19th August 2013What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 20th August 2013Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 21st August 2013What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 22nd August 2013In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 23rd August 2013Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 24th August 2013In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 25th August 2013Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 26th August 2013In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 27th August 2013Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 28th August 2013What was a Gauleiter?
- 29th August 2013What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 30th August 2013Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 31st August 2013In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?