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Congress of Vienna

Congress of Vienna. Guiding Principles. Compensation Legitimacy (Monarchs) Balance of Powers Establish buffer states Belgium The Kingdom of The Netherlands N. Italy—given to Austria Rhineland—given to Prussia Switzerland—given Independence . Prince Klemens Von Metternich.

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Congress of Vienna

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  1. Congress of Vienna

  2. Guiding Principles • Compensation • Legitimacy (Monarchs) • Balance of Powers • Establish buffer states • Belgium • The Kingdom of The Netherlands • N. Italy—given to Austria • Rhineland—given to Prussia • Switzerland—given Independence

  3. Prince Klemens Von Metternich • Opposed Nationalism • Opposed Liberalism • Defended absolute monarchies • Maintain a balance of Power • Liberalism: want change • Reactionaries or Conservatives: want monarchies—no change

  4. Concert of Europe • Quadruple Alliance • a treaty signed in Paris on 20 November, 1815 by the United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, and Russia. It renewed the alliance first agreed to in 1813 and it modified the aims of the alliance from defeating Napoleon Bonaparte to upholding the settlement following the Napoleonic Wars:

  5. Holy Alliance • The Holy Alliance (also called the Grand Alliance) was a coalition of Russia, Austria and Prussia created in 1815 at the behest of Czar Alexander I of Russia, signed by the three powers in Paris on September 26, 1815, in the Congress of Vienna after the defeat of Napoleon. • instill the Christian values of charity and peace in European political life.

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