Practice question · True or false
The Congress of Vienna settlement of 1814 to 1815 was followed by ninety-nine years without a general European war.
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- Count from the settlement to 1914.
- There were wars — Crimean, Italian, German — but none that engaged all the great powers together.
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True
Why
True. The Concert of Europe did not prevent wars; it prevented general ones, by keeping the great powers in conversation and treating major changes as matters for collective settlement. Its slow breakdown after 1871, and especially after 1890, is a large part of the background to 1914.
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