Chapter 6 Multiple choice questions

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What was the Pleven Plan?

A plan to create a European Coal and Steel Community correct incorrect

A plan to create a European Political Community correct incorrect

A plan to create a European Defence Community correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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What event triggered the proposal of a European Defence Community?

The Korean War correct incorrect

The Berlin Blockade correct incorrect

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

All of the above correct incorrect

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

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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What happened to the European Defence Community?

It was narrowly ratified in 1953 correct incorrect

It was ratified after amendments to remove references to the European Political Community correct incorrect

The treaty was signed but never ratified correct incorrect

The governments failed to agree on a text of the treaty correct incorrect

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

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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

To encourage a European Political Community correct incorrect

To develop a common market correct incorrect

To revive the European Defence Community correct incorrect

To launch Euratom correct incorrect

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

Euratom correct incorrect

Agriculture correct incorrect

External relations correct incorrect

Regional development correct incorrect

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True or false: In the early days of the ECSC, national governments insisted that the High Authority be given a wide range of powers.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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What triggered crisis in the ECSC in 1959?

An acute shortage of coal correct incorrect

Widespread industrial action by coal and steel workers correct incorrect

The shift from coal to nuclear power correct incorrect

A fall in demand for coal correct incorrect

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Why was agriculture included in the Treaty of Rome?

Germany insisted: they needed to rebuild their agricultural production correct incorrect

It was regarded as a vital dimension of the common market correct incorrect

It was politically important for securing French support correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect