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9044097160Carlsbad DecreesIssued 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
9044097161Lord CastlereaghThe 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
9044097162Czar Alexander Ithe czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825)2
9044097163Frederich William IIIPrussia's representation in the Big Four. He wanted land.3
9044097164Francis IThis was the French king who reached an agreement with Pope Leo X and allowed the French king to select French bishops and abbots4
9044097165Talleyrandfrench minister and representative at the Congress of Vienna5
9044097166Klemens von MetternichThis was Austria's foreign minister who wanted a balance of power in an international equilibrium of political and military forces that would discourage aggression6
9044097167Buffer StatesSafeguarded other major European countries from French invasion7
9044097168Balance of Poweran equilibrium of power between nations8
9044097169National Self-DeterminationThe idea that people should determine who and what they want leading them9
9044097170Liberalisman economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market and the gold standard10
9044097171Legitimacypolitical authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution11
9044097172Compensationpayment or whatever is given or done to make up for something12
9044097173Holy Alliancea league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the congress of Vienna13
9044097174Quadruple AllianceThis was the alliance between Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia after the Napoleonic era14
9044097175Monroe Doctrinean American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers15
9044097176Louis XVIIIFrench monarch who was restored to the throne by the allies after Napoleon was defeated.16
9044097177ConservativesLike to stick to the traditional ways of government and tend to oppose change17
9044097178Congress of ViennaMeeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon18
9044097179Radicalsthose who favor extreme change19
9044097180Concert of Europea series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by Prince Klemens von Metternich to prevent the outbreak of revolutions20
9044097181Otto Von BismarckGerman statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)21
9044097182Nationalismlove of country and willingness to sacrifice for it22
9044097183Guiseppe Garibaldipart 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 red23
9044097184Nation Statea state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality24
9044097185Camillo CavourThe political mastermind behind all of Sardinia's unification plans, he succeeded in creating a Northern Italian nation state25
9044097186Balkansgeopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe. Greece and the region North of Greece.26
9044097187Real PolitikGerman term meaning practical politics, that means, policy determined by expediency rather then by ethical or ideological considerations.27
9044097188KaiserGerman emperor28
9044097189Louis Napoleon BonaparteElected 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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