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Start of Conflict - Schlieffen Plan 1 April 08, 2014 The Great War Begins Taking Sides Central Powers Allies "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Sir Edward Grey 1914 British Foreign Minister Issue Germany Faces...? Issue Germany Faces...? TWO FRONT WAR!!! Plan of attack?

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The Great War Begins Taking SidesCentral Powers Allies

"The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

Sir Edward Grey

1914

British Foreign Minister

Issue Germany Faces...?

Issue Germany Faces...?

TWO FRONT WAR!!!

Plan of attack?

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Issue Germany Faces...?

TWO FRONT WAR!!!

Plan of attack?

SCHLIEFFEN PLAN!

Germany's Plan to a Two- Front War

- Schlieffen Plan

- attack to west in France quickly

- circle Paris & win

- invade France through:

Belgium, Holland, &

Luxembourg

Germany's Plan to a Two- Front War

- Schlieffen Plan

- Keep the right wing strong!

- should take 6 - 7 weeks

- after quick victory

turn and attack Russia

Germany's Plan to a Two- Front War

- early on - successful movement

- however, movement soon slows

- soon obvious:

failed plan

- then send forces east

Why did the Schlieffen Plan fail?- Helmuth Von Moltke (German Chief of General Staff)

downsized plan - just through Belgium

-Belgium put up some resistance

- slows Germans

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Why did the Schlieffen Plan fail?

- French reacted more quickly than expected

- 1st Battle of the Marne - British/French stop

Germans

- Eastern Front! Russia moves into East Prussia

Why did the Schlieffen Plan fail?

- French reacted more quickly than expected

- Eastern Front! Russia moves into East Prussia

On the Western Front

stalemate and TRENCH WARFARE!

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Trench Warfare

- August - December, 1914: a moving war

- after 1915: forces dug into trenches

- Western Front: a "terrain of death"

Trench Warfare

- Industrial Nature of war = HIGH casualties

- machine guns

- highly explosive artillery

- shrapnel


The Schlieffen Plan

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Schlieffen Plan The German Plan Germany had been preparing for war for years and had devised a plan known as the Schlieffen Plan. The aim of this plan.

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