How did the congress of Vienna try to restore the balance of power in Europe?

Answer 1

The Congress of Vienna took a number of steps to restore peace in Europe, which included reestablishing old physical boundaries as well as the authority of leaders. It had three goals, which were to prevent future wars, restore the balance of power, and to restore the royal family's status before Napoleon's conquest.

Answer 2

The congress of Vienna restored the balance of power to a greater extent. All the great powers were given a just equilibrium of states taken from the defeated. The major powers are Britain, Russia,Prussia and Austria. However, not only did the Congress of Vienna try to restore balance of power but also to prevent nationalism and liberalism, contain France, bring back legitimate rulers of Europe and stop slave trade in Europe.

Answer 3

The Congress of Vienna basically restored as much as possible the States and rulers that had been there before the French Revolution. Only in Germany, the 300 States that existed before the Revolution were regrouped into 36 States. Kings were almost totally restored in their pre-Revolution absolute powers and 'liberal' innovations like democracy and the rule of law were mostly turned back.

The period of relative quiet on the European battlefields was therefore not the result of the Congress of Vienna. And the 'general peace' there certainly did not last for 100 years. The reason primarily was - apart from the general war weariness after twenty years of ongoing wars - that many European might be weary of fighting each other, but not of fighting colonial wars. Many European nations did go to war almost immediately, but this time in order to establish or restore their power and position in their colonies. And very quickly after Vienna a large number of uprisings started by people and nationalities who were unhappy with the 'restored' order.

After no more than 30 years, most of Europe was up in arms against its absolute rulers: the 1848 revolutions brought about hard-fought changes and wars such as those between Denmark and Prussia and Austria against a number of Italian States. In 1853 there was an extremely bloody war - the Crimean War - that lasted three years and involved six European nations. Then there was the Franco-Prussian war of 1870; and the list goes on.

The list of wars involving European nations in the 19th century is very long, mostly colonial wars but a great number of wars inside Europe as well. What kept Europe (only relatively) quiet for a few decades was not the result of the Congress of Vienna, but the result of a change of focus, from Europe to existing and new colonies.

Answer 4

It returned France to a Monarchy.

Answer 5

Nationalism