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Discuss the success and failure of the Vienna Settlement.
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Discuss the success and failure of the Vienna Settlement. After the Congress of Vienna, the next war which involved the whole of Europe was the First World War and Second World War. Between 1815 and 1914, with the exception of a number of local wars. There were ninety-nine years of peace amongst European nations. Such a long period of peace was to some extent due to the Vienna Settlement. France was not treated as a defeated power by the Settlement. Rather, she was invited to take part in its shaping, and she was later admitted as one of the Big Five. Moreover, the penalties imposed on France were not very humiliating and she was not made to give up any of her traditional territories. Consequently, France was not resentful of the Vienna Settlement, and had no reason to repudiate it. On its treatment of the defeated power, the Vienna ...
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