AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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the Allies’ strategy to break the stalemate by attacking the eastern front.
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Germany’s plan to focus on the Eastern Front before moving their armies to fight the Allies on the Western Front.
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Russia’s strategy was to defeat Germany by launching an unexpected winter offensive.
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Germany’s plan to quickly defeat the Allies on the Western front and then defeat the Russians on the Eastern front.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Prior to World War I, The Schlieffen Plan established that, in case of the outbreak of war, Germany would attack France first and then Russia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Schlieffen’s strategy assumed that Russia, having recently lost the Russo-Japanese War, would take at least six weeks to mobilize its troops and attack Germany from the East. In that time, Germany would stage an attack on France by marching west through neutral territory of the Netherlands and Belgium.
Detailed explanation-3: -He decided that France was the enemy to be defeated first, with Russia held off until the French were annihilated. His plan called for four army groups, called the Bataillon Carré, to mass on the extreme German right.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.