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August 2019 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2019, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2019
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2019Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 2nd August 2019Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 3rd August 2019In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 4th August 2019Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 5th August 2019Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 6th August 2019Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 7th August 2019What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 8th August 2019Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 9th August 2019What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 10th August 2019What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 11th August 2019In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 12th August 2019In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 13th August 2019What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 14th August 2019Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 15th August 2019What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 16th August 2019Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 17th August 2019On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 18th August 2019Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 19th August 2019Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 20th August 2019What was the Privy Council?
- 21st August 2019What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 22nd August 2019In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 23rd August 2019Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 24th August 2019Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 25th August 2019What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 26th August 2019In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 27th August 2019In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 28th August 2019What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 29th August 2019What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 30th August 2019What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 31st August 2019What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?