ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Holy Alliance

Okay kiddo, so do you know what an alliance is? It's like when two or more people or groups agree to work together towards a common goal.

The Holy Alliance was a special kind of alliance made by three big countries in Europe - Russia, Prussia, and Austria in the year 1815. They made this alliance after a big war, called the Napoleonic Wars, had ended.

These countries were worried about all the revolutions and changes happening in Europe at that time. They wanted to make sure that their way of doing things, which was based on religion and the old traditional ways, would not be threatened.

So they made this Holy Alliance to try and keep order and peace in Europe. They promised to help each other if anything bad happened to one of them. And they also said they would work together to make sure everyone else in Europe followed their way of doing things.

Now, some people didn't like this idea because it meant these three big countries had a lot of power over the other smaller countries in Europe. But the Holy Alliance did help keep peace in Europe for a while.

So, in short, the Holy Alliance was a special alliance made by three big countries in Europe to keep peace and order, and to protect their traditional way of doing things.