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August 2025 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2025, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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August 2025

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in August 2025

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st August 2025Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  2. 2nd August 2025Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  3. 3rd August 2025Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  4. 4th August 2025What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  5. 5th August 2025What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  6. 6th August 2025Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  7. 7th August 2025What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  8. 8th August 2025Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  9. 9th August 2025Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  10. 10th August 2025What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  11. 11th August 2025Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  12. 12th August 2025What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  13. 13th August 2025What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  14. 14th August 2025What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  15. 15th August 2025Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  16. 16th August 2025In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  17. 17th August 2025In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  18. 18th August 2025Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  19. 19th August 2025When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  20. 20th August 2025What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  21. 21st August 2025What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  22. 22nd August 2025What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  23. 23rd August 2025What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  24. 24th August 2025Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  25. 25th August 2025In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  26. 26th August 2025What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  27. 27th August 2025Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  28. 28th August 2025Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  29. 29th August 2025How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  30. 30th August 2025On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  31. 31st August 2025Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.