Napoleon Foreign policy Crimean war

Index

1. Overview

2. Reasons for the war

3. Success or Failure

4. Years after war

5. Overall outcome

6. Sources

7. Thanks

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• Napoleons first major international dispute
  
• Major participants:
  
• France
• Russia,
  
• Turkey
• Britain

• reacting rather than initiating
  

• enhance France's prestige + gain support from church
  
• France and Russia wanted to be the major influence on Sultan
  
• Sultan rids himself of Russian threat
  
• France didn't want war but only alternative
  
• not a 'proper' war
  

Reasons for the war:

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• No clear consistency
• Dissapointment: no enthusiam, wasn't short and snappy, reports of mismanagement and inefficiency
  
• But succesful either way:
• Russia yields: great international standing
  
• Russia remains stubborn: Quadruple Alliance shatters
  
• Paris chosen as venue for Peace Treaty
  

Years after the war:

• height of international standing
• Filled power vacuum of Metternich
• Exploted this soured realtionship
• Franco- Russian friendship
  
• Heightend French influence
  

Overall outcome:

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• 1850s: Napoleon full of ambitious plans
  
• countries took him seriously
  
• Napoleon belives he is most powerful statesman
  

1. That yellow history book that I didn't bring with me so I can't cite it (ask Mr. Kinder)
   

Sources:

Thanks!