When one's power is being threatened, they should seek alliance from another country for help. In class, the teacher sorted students into groups and assigned the groups a problem that was needed to be fixed after the defeat of Napoleon. Groups then predicted how they would rectify those problems. After each group came up with ideas for solution, the teacher put the real solutions up on the board and students record notes. This helped students get an idea on what the Congress of Vienna was.
Metternich was the Austrian ruler and a leading figure during the Congress of Vienna. After the battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon was defeated, the Congress of Vienna established guiding principles which would shape the direction of Europe for the rest of the 19th century. The Congress of Vienna concerned the reapportionment of Europe after the fall of Napoleon and the demise of the French empire. The Holy Alliance consist of four European powers: Russia, Prussia, Austria,and France. Metternich used the Holy Alliance to threaten France, so if France tried to attack, the other three allies would be able to defend one another and retaliate with greater force than the French. The impact was that it prevented a weakened France from attacking the other members of the Holy Alliance. It also took away many of their colonial holdings and made them more reliant on other European powers for economic and military support.
I do not think the powerful people of Vienna made the correct choice of creating the new guiding principles because they g made it possible for another revolution with France . I think the power between all five countries in the principle of legitimacy should have been equally distributed to avoid chaos and future revolutions. Although there was 40 years of peace between the five leading powers in Europe. If there were little adjustments made to Napoleon's conquest, there would have been less
Video clip from Napoleon and Metternich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGW0jf-rmU&feature=youtu.be
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visual of the holy Alliance: http://westerncivguides.umwblogs.org/2012/02/28/the-holy-alliance/
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