1. 10/7 Focus: Important Terms: Do Now:
After the defeat of Napoleon, the European powers met at the Congress of Vienna to restore order and re-establish peace.
Important Terms:
Balance of Power, Legitimacy
Do Now:
Identify one impact that Napoleon had on Europe

2. Reactions Against Revolutionary Ideals
The Congress of Vienna

3. Napoleon had conquered large parts of Europe
Spread revolutionary ideals
Removed monarchs from their thrones

4. Napoleon’s Defeat
European powers exiled Napoleon to the Island of St. Helena after his defeat at Waterloo

5. The Congress of Vienna
Meeting of European powers to develop a peace settlement after Napoleon’s defeat
Austria
Russia
Prussia
Great Britain
France

6. The Congress of Vienna Prince Clemens von Metternich
Austrian foreign minster
Dominated the meeting
Distrusted democratic ideals
Promoted legitimacy
Hereditary right of a monarch to rule
Wanted to establish a balance of power in Europe
Distribution of military and economic power that prevents one nation from becoming to powerful

7. The Congress of Vienna Goals Actions
Strengthen countries around France
Prevent future French aggression
Re-drew boundaries of Europe
To return France and Europe to the way it was before Napoleon
Restored European monarchs to their thrones
Created the Concert of Europe: an organization to maintain peace
Protect the new system and prevent future wars

9. Impact of the Congress of Vienna
Restored European monarchs
Impact of the Congress of Vienna
Revolutionaries angered by restoration of monarchies
Revolutions develop within European nations
Maintained peace between European nations
Nationalism grows in areas under foreign control
Redrew European borders

10. Closure
Explain how the Congress of Vienna was a reaction to revolutionary or enlightenment ideas.