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level: Lecture + Chapter 4: First Steps (1944-58)

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level questions: Lecture + Chapter 4: First Steps (1944-58)

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What is the Treaty of Versailles about?France post punitive sanction upon Germany after the WW1.
What were 3 important aspects of the Treaty of Versailles?Germany lost its territory, colonies and had to pay financial restorations.
What were 2 important priorities after WWII?Economic reconstruction was needed if Europe was to recover and this must include Germany and Europe faced the treats of being on the battlefield between the US and Soviet Union.
What is the Bretton Woods System?The arrangement of a new sustainable international commercial and financial system based on the gold standard.
What is the Marshall Plan?A program under which the US offered financial assistance to post-war recovery in Europe.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?A defensive alliance created in 1949 among the US and most western European states designed to sent a warning to the Soviet Union.
What is the European Community of Steel and Coal (ECSC)?The first organization set up to encourage regional integration in Europe with qualities that were both supranational and intergovernmental.
What were some early post war European initiatives that failed?European defence and political community.
Why was the Schuman Declaration of 9th of May 1950 revolutionary?It was the birth certificate of the community of Europe and to give away sovereignty to a supranational authority to help build a new European space.
In 1956, there was a turning point in European Integration. Explain what happened.Two events happened which were the Suez crisis and the Hungarian uprising and Soviet invasion.
What is the Suez Crisis of 1956 about?It was an attempt made by Britain, France and Israel to reverse Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal.
What is the European Economic Community (EEC)?An international organization created in 1957 with the goal of establishing a single market among its member states and economic integration.
What are the 3 Goals of the EEC?To achieve the single market, eliminations of customs duties between member states and the establishment of common policies on agriculture, trade, transport and competition.
What is the European Atom Energy Community (Euratom)?An international organization created in 1957 to coordinate research on the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
What is the Cold War?A war of words, ideas, and ideologies between the US and Soviet Union.