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August 2026 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 2026, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2026Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 2nd August 2026Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 3rd August 2026Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 4th August 2026Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 5th August 2026What was a Gauleiter?
- 6th August 2026What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 7th August 2026What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 8th August 2026What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 9th August 2026What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 10th August 2026On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 11th August 2026What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 12th August 2026In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 13th August 2026Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 14th August 2026When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 15th August 2026What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 16th August 2026What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 17th August 2026What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 18th August 2026What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 19th August 2026Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 20th August 2026In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 21st August 2026By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 22nd August 2026Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 23rd August 2026Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 24th August 2026How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 25th August 2026Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 26th August 2026What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 27th August 2026What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 28th August 2026Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 29th August 2026Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 30th August 2026Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 31st August 2026Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.