9044097160 | Carlsbad Decrees | Issued by Metternich, required 39 independent German states, including Prussia and Austria, to root out subversive ideas. (censorship) Also established permanent committee with spies to punish any liberal or radical organization. | ![]() | 0 |
9044097161 | Lord Castlereagh | The British representative at the Congress of Vienna, he represented the UK at the Congress and helped create the security system for Europe that would last until 1848. | 1 | |
9044097162 | Czar Alexander I | the czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825) | ![]() | 2 |
9044097163 | Frederich William III | Prussia's representation in the Big Four. He wanted land. | 3 | |
9044097164 | Francis I | This was the French king who reached an agreement with Pope Leo X and allowed the French king to select French bishops and abbots | ![]() | 4 |
9044097165 | Talleyrand | french minister and representative at the Congress of Vienna | ![]() | 5 |
9044097166 | Klemens von Metternich | This was Austria's foreign minister who wanted a balance of power in an international equilibrium of political and military forces that would discourage aggression | ![]() | 6 |
9044097167 | Buffer States | Safeguarded other major European countries from French invasion | 7 | |
9044097168 | Balance of Power | an equilibrium of power between nations | ![]() | 8 |
9044097169 | National Self-Determination | The idea that people should determine who and what they want leading them | ![]() | 9 |
9044097170 | Liberalism | an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market and the gold standard | ![]() | 10 |
9044097171 | Legitimacy | political authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution | ![]() | 11 |
9044097172 | Compensation | payment or whatever is given or done to make up for something | ![]() | 12 |
9044097173 | Holy Alliance | a league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the congress of Vienna | ![]() | 13 |
9044097174 | Quadruple Alliance | This was the alliance between Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia after the Napoleonic era | ![]() | 14 |
9044097175 | Monroe Doctrine | an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers | ![]() | 15 |
9044097176 | Louis XVIII | French monarch who was restored to the throne by the allies after Napoleon was defeated. | ![]() | 16 |
9044097177 | Conservatives | Like to stick to the traditional ways of government and tend to oppose change | 17 | |
9044097178 | Congress of Vienna | Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon | ![]() | 18 |
9044097179 | Radicals | those who favor extreme change | ![]() | 19 |
9044097180 | Concert of Europe | a series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by Prince Klemens von Metternich to prevent the outbreak of revolutions | ![]() | 20 |
9044097181 | Otto Von Bismarck | German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898) | ![]() | 21 |
9044097182 | Nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | 22 | |
9044097183 | Guiseppe Garibaldi | part of Italian unification. In 1860 led an army of nationalists to conquer and unite southern Italy. He allowed the King of Sardinia to rule. His group was called the "Red Shirts" because they wore red | ![]() | 23 |
9044097184 | Nation State | a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | ![]() | 24 |
9044097185 | Camillo Cavour | The political mastermind behind all of Sardinia's unification plans, he succeeded in creating a Northern Italian nation state | ![]() | 25 |
9044097186 | Balkans | geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe. Greece and the region North of Greece. | ![]() | 26 |
9044097187 | Real Politik | German term meaning practical politics, that means, policy determined by expediency rather then by ethical or ideological considerations. | ![]() | 27 |
9044097188 | Kaiser | German emperor | ![]() | 28 |
9044097189 | Louis Napoleon Bonaparte | Elected president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle, the original Napoleon. | ![]() | 29 |
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