History of the European Union - Multiple Choice Test

The European Coal and Steel Community was founded
1. to produce coal and steel without the Soviet Union knowing about it.
2. to control the industrial production of Western European countries.
3. to export coal and steel to other European countries.
4. to become the most powerful coal and steel producers in the world.
The treaty that founded the European Economic Community was signed in
1. Rome
2. Paris
3. London
4. Luxembourg
The first enlargement of the EU included
1. the Scandinavian countries
2. Denmark, the UK and Ireland.
3. Greece and Spain.
4. the Benelux countries.
The biggest expansion of the European Union included
1. the countries of Eastern Europe.
2. East and West Germany.
3. the southern European countries.
4. western European countries
The last country to join the European Union was
1. Croatia
2. Turkey
3. Romania
4. Bulgaria
Robert Schuman was
1. a French politician who helped found the EU
2. a German Prime Minister after World War II
3. one of the presidents of the European Commission
4. a Belgian leader who was against the founding of the EEC
Towards the end of the 1980s
1. Communism collapsed in many eastern European countries
2. European politicians agreed on a polical union for Europe
3. Communist countries joined the EU
4. East Germany became part of the EU.
One of the aims of the Maastricht Treaty was
1. to introduce a single currency for European countries
2. expand the EU to all of Europe
3. to set up a European capital
4. to tear down the Iron Curtain