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Assignment 2: Timeline of the most important events 1945 - 1986
European Integration
Forming of the European Union of Federalists (EUF)
1946
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Formed in 1946 from wartime Resistance movements to create a federal constitution for Europe as part of a more distant plan for global unity.
The Marshall Plan
June 1947
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Announced by US Secretary of State George C. Marshall. involved the US giving $13 billion in financial aid to the states of Western Europe. The assistance was also offered to eastern Europe, but declined under USSR pressure.
the Hague European Congress of the EUF
1948
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The conference that was supposed to pave the way to the new constitution in The Hague.
Formation Benelux
March 1948
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Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
Organization for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) set up
april 1948
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Later joined by the Federal Republic of Germany (1949) and the US and Canada (1950) as associate members.
Council of Europe
1949
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Creation EDC
1950
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Creation EPC
1950
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the European Convention on Human Rights
1950
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The EUF adopts the ECHR and the Commission of Human Rights, as well as the Court of Human Rights.
The Schuman Plan for Coal and Steel
May 1950
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The French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman, proposed a scheme for pooling the coal and steel supplies of France and Germany, and invited other European states who wished to participate to express an interest.
Monnet:
- German participation.
- Coal
- National positions
- US
Failing EDC
1952
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Treaty of Paris, foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
1952
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Failing EDC
1953
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Cold War
Allied meeting in Yalta, start of the European division
1945
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Truman Doctrine
March 1947
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This spoke of the duty of the United States to assist 'free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures'.
Collapse of Four-Power Council of Foreign Ministers
April 1947
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Walk-out of the Soviet representatives resulted in the US and Britain starting to prepare the Anglo-American zones in Germany for independence.
International Authority for the Ruhr (IAR)
April 1949
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The Ruhr region of Germany had been placed under joint Allied control.
Outbreak of the Korean war
June 1950
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Germany had to be rearmed