The Plan That Broke the World

The “Schlieffen Plan” and World War I

William D. O’Neil

Map Booklet

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Figure 2. Prussia to Empire, 1820–1871. Based on “The German (North German) Confederation, 1815 to 1870,” copyright IEG-Maps -

Kartenserver am Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, used with permission.

Figure 15. The Balkans and neighboring regions.

Compiled and drawn by W. D. O’Neil.

Figure 16. Redrawing the Map of the Balkans, 1878–1914. (M. marks Montenegro)

Based on “South Eastern Europe,” 1878 and 1914, copyright IEG-Maps - Kartenserver am Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, used with permission.

Figure 19. Europe, August 1914. Compiled and drawn by W. D. O’Neil, copyright 2013.

Figure 20. Initial deployments. Compiled and drawn by W. D. O’Neil, copyright 2014.

Figure 21. Landforms.

Adapted from Figure 1. of Johnson, Douglas Wilson, Topography and Strategy in the War (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1917).

Figure 30. Battles of Mons, Charleroi, and Namur. Compiled and drawn by W. D. O’Neil, copyright 2013.

Figure 31. The German advance, to September 9. Compiled and drawn by W. D. O’Neil, copyright 2014.

Figure 34. The “Schlieffen Plan,” 1906. Compiled and drawn by W. D. O’Neil, copyright 2014.

Figure 36. Schlieffen's concept vs. events of August 1914. Compiled and drawn by W. D. O’Neil, copyright 2014.