| Term | Definition |
|---|
| COV was response to... | napoleon's impact on the map of europe |
| cov purpose | to redraw the continents political map and settle other issues from french rev and napoleonic wars |
| Treaty of Paris | gave up nearly all of its conquests but no attempt made to return germany to previous state |
| what did russia want and get? | wanted poland; received most of poland as well as finland and parts of turkey |
| prussia aqcuired... | the rhineland region and saxony; parts of sweden |
| Britain were interested in... | wasn't interested in aqcuiring territory, BUT wanted important naval bases such as Malta |
| Holy Alliance | europe's monarchs who pledge to promote charity, peace, and justice; continued to apply repressive means to rule their nations |
| quadruple alliance | austria, prussia, russia, and britain |
| central powers in WWI | austria-hungary; ottoman empire; and germany |
| How did napoleon change europe? | redrew the boundries, which made france bigger |
| Metternich (austria) | supported a conservative gov't; reactionary |
| alexander I (russia) | wanted poland to get buffer zone |
| castlereagh(ireland) | keep russia from gaining too much power after war with napoleon |
| Frederick William (prussia) | unify german states for power and numbers |
| Restoration(goal of delegates at cov) | restore monarchies established by napoleon; bring back balance of power of old system and nations boundaries |
| legitimacy (cov goal) | restoring unseated herditary monarchies that the French Revolution or Napoleon had not restored; |
| militarism | arms race, germany and great britain(naval); sophisticated weapons |
| nationalism | recognize your own gov't as legitmate of your nation; austria-hungary and serbia (independence) |
| alliances | central and allies; turn into two major military sides in WWI |
| talleyrand | france; did not want to have the broders shrunken back like before napoleonic wars |
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