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August 2016 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2016, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2016What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 2nd August 2016Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 3rd August 2016What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 4th August 2016Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 5th August 2016What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 6th August 2016In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 7th August 2016Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 8th August 2016In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 9th August 2016What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 10th August 2016In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 11th August 2016Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 12th August 2016Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 13th August 2016Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 14th August 2016Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 15th August 2016In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 16th August 2016Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 17th August 2016Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 18th August 2016What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 19th August 2016Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 20th August 2016Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 21st August 2016Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 22nd August 2016What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 23rd August 2016Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 24th August 2016In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 25th August 2016What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 26th August 2016In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 27th August 2016What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 28th August 2016How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 29th August 2016Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 30th August 2016What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 31st August 2016Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?