Western Europe
Long-time dictator of Spain during the Estado Novo from 1933 to 1974
Francisco Franco
_____ refers to the feelings of a group of people who perceive themselves as sharing a sense of belonging and who often have a common language, culture, and set of traditions that is set to the exclusion of others.
Nationalism
____ is the process of leaving ones home country to move to another while ____ is the process of moving to a new country to establish residency and citizenship.
The name for the currency area of the EU.
Eurozone
Name one of the three Baltics States
Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania
Major part of the ______ Empire that ultimately broke away and became Brazil under Emperor Pedro II
Portuguese
____ refers to the set of orientations to politics in a national or sub-national population with knowledge and beliefs about political reality and feelings or commitments to particular political values; established through childhood, socialization, media, family.
Political Culture
_____ is a dislike or prejudice against people that migrate to one's community
Xenophobia
The _____ amended previous agreements used to establish the European Union to give the EU full legal status and expanded existing institutions of the EU. It was the alternative to a constitution.
Treaty of Lisbon
Name one of the Balkans States
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia
Name the Heads of State in the UK, France, Portugal, and Spain
UK: Charles III
France: Macron
Portugal: Rebelo de Sousa
Spain: Felipe VI
A(n) _____ is an ongoing administrative apparatus that develops and administers laws and generates and implements public policies in a specific territory
State
Which two states did we discuss in terms of their dissolution and the resulting power sharing institutions created in the aftermath.
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
The _____ founded the European Union in 1992 and began the process of establishing shared European citizenship, a shared currency, and supranational institutions.
Treaty of Maastricht
Name the Heads of State in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus
Russia: Putin
Ukraine: Zelenskyy
Poland: Duda
Belarus: Lukashenka
Name a comunidad autonoma in Spain
Basque Country, Catalonia, Andalusia
____ is a Portuguese populist right-wing party with goal to “return to Christian, conservative, pre-globalization values”
Chega
____ is a theory of governmental stability based on power-sharing arrangements and the avoidance of violence by ensuring proportional representation in decision-making
Consociational Theory
Which states are the most recent to leave and join the EU?
Croatia (2013) and the UK (2020)
Briefly describe the named Revolutions of Eastern Europe we discussed.
Orange and Maidan--Ukraine
Velvet--Czecholslovakia
Singing-Baltics
Name the Heads of Government in the UK, France, Portugal, and Spain
UK: Sunak
France: Borne
Portugal: Da Costa
Spain: Perez-Castejon
Provide three examples of differences between Political Culture and Nationalism in the United States versus Europe.
uSocialist and Social Democratic Parties
uThe Welfare State
uUnionization
uPaternalism
uClass
uSpirituality
uAbsence of Feudalism in America
uEarly Affluence in America
uDisintegrative Forces of Immigration
uThe Frontier Thesis
uAmerican Sectarianism
uRacial Heterogeneity in America—The Marginalized Community
Briefly explain the history of the European region in terms of both its era of emigration and the current era of immigration.
Emigration from Europe
u1850s and Great Irish Famine
u1880s and Cheaper Travel from Eastern, Southern Europe
uUrban Centers Absorb, Industrialize Rapidly
u1900-1915: Third Wave Ends with WWI
uCongress, Quotas, and Xenophobia Grow
Immigration to Europe
uGuest Worker—Temporary Migrants to Fill Labor Needs
uLabor Migrants Grow in Western Europe Amid Post-WWII Reconstruction
uWirtschaftswunder—Germany’s Economic Miracle
uSecond Wave: Family Unification Leads to Third Generation
List and explain three of the modern institutions of the European Union and explain how these institutions function/are organized/representatives chosen.
European Council
u27 HOS/HOG
uCouncil President
uPresident of European Commission
uHigh Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
uDecisions have weight of EU Law
Council of Ministers
uDay-to-day legislative and budgetary work
uCan’t initiate policy but can request it
uPresidency to each country on 6 month terms
European Commission
uNumber of reps corresponds to 2/3 of the number of member states
u1 commissioner per member-state
uCommittee structure for various issues
uPresident with 7 vice presidents
European Parliament
u751 members elected to five year terms based on population of states
uStrasbourg and Brussels meeting places
uFocus on Europe-level issues
uDisconnect between domestic party power and parliamentary elections
European Court of Justice
u1 justice for each of the 27 states
uPower to enforce EU rules, judicial review, and intervene domestically
European Central Bank
uActs independently from rest of EU
uControls monetary policy (but not budgetary policy of states
Name the Heads of Government in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus
Russia: Mishustin
Ukraine: Shymyhal
Poland: Morawiecki
Belarus: Halowchenka