I. The Congress of Vienna 1814-15 “The Dancing Congress”

Purposes of Congress

Balance of power

Results

Main players

Tsar Alexander I, Lord Castlereagh, Karl von Hardenburg and Metternick

Prince Clemens von Metternich

Architect of the Congress System

The Concert of Europe

Main goal is the containment of liberalism, stopping all revolution.

II. Emergent Nationalism

Revolutions in Spain and the New World (1820s)

Russian Decembrist uprising crushed 1825

Conservative reaction to Nationalism

TIMELINE

1799                Napoleon rises to power

1812                Napoleon’s invasion of Russia

1814-5             Congress of Vienna

1820s               Revolutions in South America

1830                Nationalist revolutions in Europe

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