The West in The World Ch. 18 Questions
and Answers 2024
Congress of Vienna/ Vienna Settlement - ANS-1814
powers who beat Napoleon gathered to redraw territorial boundaries/ create peace w
France
legitimacy & stability
abolished slave trade
Four major victors over Napoleon - ANS-Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, & Austria
Lord Casterleagh - ANS-(1769-1822)
represented Great Britain in congress of Vienna
Legitimacy - ANS-territories place under control of old ruling houses
bourbon monarchy restored in France
Stability - ANS-establishing & maintaining a balance of power in Europe
established strong states along France's borders to disgorge any future conquests
four main powers gained new territories
German Confederation - ANS-39 German states that remained after Napoleon's
destruction of the Holy Roman Empire
after Congress of Vienna- Austria gained permanent presidency over the states (37 little
+ Prussia & Austria)
Prince Clemens Von Metternich - ANS-(1773-1859)
Austria
conservative minister of foreign affairs
Congress of Vienna
Concert of Europe
Vienna Settlement
ideologies - ANS-sets of ideas attitudes and beliefs about how the world is/ should be
ppl looked for ideologies to explain/ deal with the changes after the french revolution/
, industrialization
Holy Alliance - ANS-Alexander I of Russia
establish & safeguard principles of Christianity
Russia, Austria, Prussia (most conservative = nucleus)
Metternich had little faith in it but it symbolized commitment to preserving the Vienna
Settlement
/ willingness to intervene in other countries on behalf of conservatism
Concert of Europe - ANS-also called the Quadruple Alliance (1815)
helped to perpetuate Vienna Settlement
4 great powers
military alliance to guarantee the Vienna Settlement
hold periodic meetings to discuss common problems
France joined in 1818
Britain leaves in 1822
authorized Austrian army to put down rebellion in Naples agains Ferdinand I France
intervened in liberal revolt in Spain/ Alexander I sent Russians to help put down
Spanish colonies in America
Monroe Doctrine - ANS-U.S. regard any interference by Europe in the Western
Hemisphere as an "unfriendly" act- supported by British (strongest navy) b/c of
economic interest in Latin America
prevented Concert of Europe from really exerting any power outside continental Europe
Talleyrand - ANS-(1754-1838)
represented France in Congress of Vienna
conservatism - ANS-preserve traditional way of life/ old order
ideas to refute enlightenment/revolution
belief in order & hierarchy
social & political order based on hierarchy of authoritative institutions whose legitimacy
came from God/ tradition
equality wrong & bourgeoisie = the enemy
individualism will fragment society/ bring anarchy
slow evolution of social and political institutions
supported my members of nobility/church
Edmund Burke - ANS-(1729-1797)
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