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August 2022 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2022, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2022
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2022On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 2nd August 2022What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 3rd August 2022Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 4th August 2022What was the Privy Council?
- 5th August 2022What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 6th August 2022What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 7th August 2022Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 8th August 2022What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 9th August 2022What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 10th August 2022In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 11th August 2022In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 12th August 2022By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 13th August 2022What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 14th August 2022What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 15th August 2022What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 16th August 2022Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 17th August 2022What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 18th August 2022Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 19th August 2022Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 20th August 2022What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 21st August 2022Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 22nd August 2022Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 23rd August 2022What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 24th August 2022Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 25th August 2022Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 26th August 2022Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 27th August 2022Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 28th August 2022What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 29th August 2022What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 30th August 2022What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 31st August 2022Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?