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August 2017 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2017, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2017In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 2nd August 2017What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 3rd August 2017In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 4th August 2017What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 5th August 2017In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 6th August 2017Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 7th August 2017In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 8th August 2017What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 9th August 2017Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 10th August 2017In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 11th August 2017Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 12th August 2017On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 13th August 2017Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 14th August 2017Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 15th August 2017Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 16th August 2017Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 17th August 2017In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 18th August 2017Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 19th August 2017Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 20th August 2017What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 21st August 2017In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 22nd August 2017In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 23rd August 2017What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 24th August 2017Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 25th August 2017What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 26th August 2017Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 27th August 2017When did Germany formally reunify?
- 28th August 2017What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 29th August 2017Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 30th August 2017What was the Privy Council?
- 31st August 2017What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?