Congress of Vienna: Europe's Order After Napoleon
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The Congress of Vienna:
In 1815 Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, the victorious powers were now rearrange the map of Europe. To this end, Congress was held in Vienna, which proposed two things:
Restore the old regime (it was decided to pursue any revolutionary attempt, and signed the "Holy Alliance." Anyway, the restoration could not occur with equal force in all European countries because Western countries were more permeable the Orientals to the ideas of the Revolution and Napoleon. Therefore, when Louis XVIII restored to him the throne of the Bourbons in France, kept the Napoleonic codes, the abolition of feudalism, and even promised to govern with an absolute moderate: it was the regime of the Letter Issued. The system of CO has been copied in Spain during the regency of Maria Cristina of Naples in the "System of a Royal Charter. By contrast, in countries of Eastern Europe, where the Napoleonic reforms had not arrived, absolutism remained tight) and create a new international order based on the balance between the major continental powers (which was more complicated, since each country I wanted something different, but the need for state-stoppers around the French borders to deter the country from future positions came expansionist adventures. Thus Prussia was allowed to extend to the border with France in exchange for Russia absorb the kingdom of Poland and Austria absorbed Dalmatia on the Adriatic and the region of Lombardy and Veneto in Italy. To the south of this, there were precious few strategic points and Austria and Russia waited for the opportunity to capture them, where future confrontations ended born . The most significant is that the Congress of Vienna had not attended the nationalist sentiments began to sprout throughout Europe as anti-Napoleonic reaction. So, across Europe want to break the corset is made in Vienna, creating liberal states and national and revolutionary waves eventually appearing in 1820, 1830 and 1848)
The architect of this thought was the Austrian Chancellor, Metternich, who has already warned of this danger by saying the only cause cancer nationalist war of "all against all."