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August 2020 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2020, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2020What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 2nd August 2020Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 3rd August 2020What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 4th August 2020What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 5th August 2020In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 6th August 2020In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 7th August 2020By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 8th August 2020Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 9th August 2020What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 10th August 2020Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 11th August 2020Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 12th August 2020What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 13th August 2020Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 14th August 2020What was the Privy Council?
- 15th August 2020What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 16th August 2020Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 17th August 2020Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 18th August 2020What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 19th August 2020What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 20th August 2020In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 21st August 2020Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 22nd August 2020Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 23rd August 2020What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 24th August 2020What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 25th August 2020What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 26th August 2020Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 27th August 2020What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 28th August 2020Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 29th August 2020Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 30th August 2020What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 31st August 2020What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?