Three Important Peace Conferences

There have been three important peace conferences since the French Revolution: the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Peace talks at Versailles after World War One, and the Grand Alliance conferences during and after World War Two. The goals and the principles of each of these conferences were similar, as were their successes and failures. Despite this, one of these conferences was more successful than the others. When the delegates met at the Congress of Vienna they had two major goals: to fashion a general peace settlement about what to do about France after the revolution, and to “raise a number of formidable barriers against renewed French aggression”. This conference was caused by the French Revolution, after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. The powers of Europe known as the Quadruple Alliance (Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Great Britain) had indeed defeated France and confirmed their dedication to keeping France in line. Many other …show more content…
The Grand Alliance held together and smashed the racist Nazi empire. They also destroyed Japan and its vast Pacific empire. They put an end to the most overextended war in all of history. The Grand Alliance paved the way for remarkable economic recovery in Europe. But there was a major failure to the Grand Alliance, it gave way to the Cold War that was seemingly never-ending and threatened the future of world peace. The most successful of these three conferences was the Congress of Vienna in 1815. This is simply because it did not lead to a war for the next ninety-nine years and it also established a system of diplomacy that would be used for many generations to come. Its failures were very minor compared to its successes, unlike those of the Treaty of Versailles. It did not cause a great tension like that of the Great Allied conferences, and is not directly to blame for the revolutions of 1848, besides just disregarding the rising nationalism in