Chapter 07

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

Question 1

What was the Pleven Plan?

a) A plan to create a European Coal and Steel Community

b) A plan to create a European Political Community

c) A plan to create a European Defence Community

d) All of the above

Question 2

What event triggered the proposal of a European Defence Community?

a) The Korean War

b) The Berlin Blockade

c) The completion of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)

d) All of the above

Question 3

True or false: The European Defence Community was linked to the European Coal and Steel Community.

a) True

b) False

Question 4

True or false: Plans for the European Political Community were linked to the European Defence Community.

a) True

b) False

Question 5

What happened to the European Defence Community?

a) It was narrowly ratified in 1953

b) It was ratified after amendments to remove references to the European Political Community

c) The treaty was signed but never ratified

d) The governments failed to agree on a text of the treaty

Question 6

True or false: After the failure of the European Defence Community (EDC), Europe's security dilemma was addressed by the Western European Union.

a) True

b) False

Question 7

What was the purpose of the conference in Messina in June 1955?

a) To encourage a European Political Community

b) To develop a common market

c) To revive the European Defence Community

d) To launch Euratom

Question 8

Which of the following was not an area in which the French demanded a concession at Messina?

a) Euratom

b) Agriculture

c) External relations

d) Regional development

Question 9

Why was agriculture included in the Treaty of Rome?

a) Germany insisted: they needed to rebuild their agricultural production

b) It was regarded as a vital dimension of the common market

c) It was politically important for securing French support

d) All of the above

Question 10

What treaties launched the European Economic Community (EEC) and Euratom?

a) Rome

b) Paris

c) Messina

d) Brussels

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Chapter 07

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