Rebuilding Europe Practice Test

In the late 1940s, European states debated how to rebuild economies while managing inflation, unemployment, and social unrest. Many adopted expanded welfare provisions—family allowances, public housing, and national health systems—arguing that social security would stabilize democracy after fascism and war. Which pre-1945 precedent most directly influenced this postwar welfare-state expansion in Western Europe?

In the late 1940s and 1950s, Western European leaders argued that rebuilding required preventing future Franco-German conflict and managing strategic resources. The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) pooled coal and steel production under a supranational authority, making rearmament and heavy industry less likely to be directed toward unilateral aggression. Which later development most clearly built on the ECSC’s approach to reconstruction and peace?