27. THE COLD WAR AND THE REMAKING OF EUROPE, 1945

Quiz for Document 27.1: The Schuman Plan on European Unity (1950)

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1. The Schuman Plan fairly quickly led the creation of

the United Nations.

the Warsaw Pact.

NATO.

the Common Market.

2. Which kind of cooperation did the Schuman Plan initially create?

Military

Economic

Social and cultural

Political

3. Why are Germany and France singled out in the plan?

They had cooperated before World War II, but the war had driven them apart.

They had been waging war with one another over a seventy-five year period.

They were close to one another socially, but the war had driven them apart.

They had been competitors for empire since 1800, and the plan would end that competition.