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August 2014 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2014, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2014Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 2nd August 2014Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 3rd August 2014Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 4th August 2014Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 5th August 2014What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 6th August 2014Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 7th August 2014Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 8th August 2014Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 9th August 2014Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 10th August 2014How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 11th August 2014Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 12th August 2014What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 13th August 2014Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 14th August 2014What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 15th August 2014Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 16th August 2014What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 17th August 2014In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 18th August 2014What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 19th August 2014In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 20th August 2014In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 21st August 2014In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 22nd August 2014Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 23rd August 2014What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 24th August 2014How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 25th August 2014Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 26th August 2014In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 27th August 2014Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 28th August 2014What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 29th August 2014Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 30th August 2014Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 31st August 2014Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?