The Story
This is the year the Eurozone crisis, also known as the European sovereign debt crisis, started
What is 2009?
This bloc prevailed in the House of European History
What is the Western Bloc?
The fall of this country's authoritarian Salazar regime in 1974 paved the path for its joint entry into the European Union with Spain in 1986
What is Portugal?
This treaty, signed in February 1992, laid the groundwork for the creation of the European Union and set the stage for future enlargements
What is the Maastricht Treaty?
These two countries rejected the 2004 European Constitution Referendum in Rome
What are France and the Netherlands?
These three countries needed a "European umbrella of Democracy" to overcome their authoritarian regimes
What is Greece, Spain, and Portugal?
This European capital city was the site of a 1975 conference that began thawing relations between the Eastern and Western blocs and introduced guarantees for human rights
What is Helsinki?
This year marked the 'Big Bang' enlargement of the European Union, welcoming ten new member states, primarily from Central and Eastern Europe
What is 2004?
This EU mechanism helped pull struggling countries out of the eurozone crisis.
What are debt relief packages?
What is 1979?
A human chain connected nearly 700 kilometers in a 1989 demonstration between the capital cities of Vilnius, Riga, and Talllin in these three countries
What are Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?
This individual, serving as the Soviet Union's final leader, introduced significant reforms that helped to end the Cold War, setting the stage for the eventual expansion of the European Union
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?