HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Address US troop advances in France
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Strengthen the defense of Germany’s colonies in Africa
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Neutralize Great Britain’s control of the North Sea
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Avoid the problem of fighting the Allies in a two front war
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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: -It was an ambitious plan designed to avoid Germany having to fight a two-front war against France and Russia. The plan was to invade France and capture Paris before the Russians could mobilize.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Schlieffen Plan drawn up in 1905 was the German army’s answer to its central strategic problem: how to win a war on two fronts, against France in the west and Russia in the east.
Detailed explanation-4: -Their armies were short of war material due to insufficient industrialization. Why did the Germans believe that the Schlieffen Plan would allow them to avoid a two-front war? The Germans believed that Great Britain would decide to stay out of the war.