European Coal and Steel Community

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/european-coal-and-steel-community

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the founding treaty?Treaty of Paris, signed April 18, 1951, effective July 23, 1952
2. What is the founding member states?Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Germany
3. What was the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)?The ECSC was a group of six European countries that joined together to share and manage coal and steel production. It was started after World War II to help the countries grow and stay peaceful.
4. Why did the ECSC want France and Germany to share coal and steel?By sharing coal and steel, France and Germany could not easily make weapons for each other. The shared control made it hard for one country to attack the other because it would hurt both.

Supranationalism: A form of international cooperation where member states delegate significant sovereign powers to an independent, overarching authority.
Common Market: An economic area characterized by the free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor among member states.
Schuman Declaration: The foundational 1950 proposal by Robert Schuman advocating for the pooling of coal and steel resources to ensure peace in Europe.
Franco-German Reconciliation: The process of healing the historical animosity and conflict between France and Germany, significantly aided by the ECSC.