(A) Metz
(B) Marne
(C) ** Paris
(D) Belgium
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -The Chief of the Imperial German General Staff, Count Alfred von Schlieffen, envisaged a massive attack through the Low Countries into northern France (shown by the green arrows on the map), an advance that would persuade France to surrender within six weeks.
Concept note-2: -The Schlieffen Plan, devised a decade before the start of World War I, was a failed strategy for Germany to win World War I. The Schlieffen Plan, devised a decade before the start of World War I, was a failed strategy for Germany to win World War I.
Concept note-3: -War against France (1905), the memorandum later known as the “Schlieffen Plan", was a strategy for a war of extraordinarily big battles, in which corps commanders would be independent in how they fought, provided that it was according to the intent of the commander in chief.