Politics & Diplomacy
This meeting of European powers in 1814–1815 aimed to restore the balance of power and legitimate monarchs after Napoleon's defeat.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
The year Napoleon begin his invasion of Russia that started his downfall.
What is 1812?
This city, intended to be a decisive capture, was found burning when Napoleon arrived in 1812.
What is Moscow?
The political philosophy that favored obedience to political authority and the restoration of monarchs.
What is conservatism?
The month and year Paris fell, leading to Napoleon’s first abdication and exile to Elba.
What was March 1814?
The Austrian foreign minister who was the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna and argued for legitimacy and conservatism.
Who is Prince Klemens von Metternich?
The number of soldiers in Napoleon’s Grand Army when it entered Russia in June 1812.
What is 600,000?
After his first exile, Napoleon escaped and returned to France; name the island where he had been exiled in 1814.
What is Elba?
The political idea that emphasizes civil liberties, constitutional government, and limits on state power.
What is liberalism?
The date in 1815 when Napoleon entered Paris after escaping Elba and regaining power
What was March 20?
The principle that the great powers used to justify sending armies to restore monarchs to their thrones.
What is the principle of intervention?
The battle in Russia where Napoleon won an indecisive but costly victory before reaching Moscow.
What is Battle of Borodino?
The battlefield where Napoleon suffered his final defeat on June 18, 1815.
What is Waterloo?
The belief that people who share language, institutions, and customs should form their own state.
What is nationalism?
The year Napoleon died in exile on St. Helena after Waterloo.
What was 1821?
This informal system of regular conferences among Great Britain, Russia, Prussia, Austria (and later France) was created to preserve the settlements and maintain peace in Europe.
What is the Concert of Europe?
The tactic used by Russians as they retreated that deprived Napoleon’s army of resources
What is scorched earth?
After Waterloo Napoleon was exiled to this remote island in the South Atlantic, where he later died.
Civil liberties that liberals of the period wanted protected.
What is freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, equality before the law, freedom of the press?
Powers that created The Concert of Europe to maintain the Vienna settlement. .
What are Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia?
The Congress of Vienna gave territory to countries to balance Russian gains
What are Prussia and Austria?
By January 1813, the approximate number of the original Grand Army soldiers made it back to Poland.
What is less than 40,000?
The restored French king who came back to the throne in 1814 as a Bourbon.
Who is Louis XVIII?
National unity in __________ or independence for __________ would redraw borders and shift power, upsetting the balance created by the Congress of Vienna and threatening the stability of multi-national empires like Austria
What is Germany and Hungary?
The redistribution of territories in Europe so no single state would dominate.
What is balance of power?