HIS103Y1 Lecture : Topic 8 - The Congress of Vienna
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- europe needed to deal with: material & physiological loss; - throughout the previous century, this is the most devastating/exhausting/ destroying the whole. Europe/ single superpower wipes out the rest of the states; Balance of power and new state system. - 1814 vision: strive for a new system eliminating the possibility of another napoleon; - realized that the cherished concept of balance of power was based on ignorance; - it was not automatic & self-regulatory; would not happen on its own; - a new international system underscored by military powers to provide tability for europe; - establish a common social, cultural and political base, that is to say, religious commitment; - for 40 years it secured peace on the continent; - the entire principle of congress of vienna stayed alive till wwi. - already pitfall in the very beginning of the congress, just in time before the congress breaks down.
