Globalism and the European Union – Quiz

  1. Identify the two foremost 20th-century institutions in which globalists placed their hopes.
  2. Identify the two major representative bodies within the United Nations.
  3. Identify at least three countries where the U.N. has intervened since 1950.
  4. Identify the first supranational governing body in Europe generally cited as the earliest forerunner of the European Union.
  5. Identify the institution created in 1999 to manage the new European Monetary Unit.
  6. Explain the connection between the attempt to ratify a constitution for the European Union in 2005 and the Lisbon Treaty of 2009.

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  1. League of Nations; United Nations
  2. General Assembly, Security Council
  3. Korea, Congo, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Ivory Coast
  4. European Coal and Steel Commission
  5. European Central Bank
  6. The Lisbon Treaty contained many provisions of the earlier constitution that failed the democratic ratification process.