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American Reaction To European Economic Unification, William Ashurst Ward

Master's Theses

Two hundred years hence, European historians may look back and place as much importance on the signing of the Common Market Treaty on March 27, 1957, as Americans place on the ratification of the Constitution by the original thirteen colonies. At the end of World War II, after centuries of national greed, ethnic and provincial differences, political absolutism and endless conflict, the nations of Western Europe began to make genuine progress toward economic and political unity and stability. The total economic collapse caused by the war and the threat of Communism forced these nations to realize that some form of …