HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Austria-Hungary’s attempt to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Serbia.
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Germany’s proposal for dividing up Serbia between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
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the Black Hand’s plan to assassinate the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
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Germany’s plan for a two-front war with Russia and France, which had formed a military alliance.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Schlieffen Plan (German: Schlieffen-Plan, pronounced [ʃliːfən plaːn]) is a name given after the First World War to German war plans, due to the influence of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on an invasion of France and Belgium, which began on 4 August 1914.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. Instead of a ‘head-on’ engagement, which would lead to position warfare of inestimable length, the opponent should be enveloped and its armies attacked on the flanks and rear.
Detailed explanation-3: -Background of Schlieffen Plan In 1904, Britain, France, and Russia formed an alliance called the “Triple Entente” as a means to protect their countries from the might of the “Triple Alliance” (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.)
Detailed explanation-4: -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, outlined a strategy for Germany to avoid fighting at its eastern and western fronts simultaneously.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.