HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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To attack Russia quickly, knock them out of the war and focus their attention on France
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Blockade the island of Britain to prevent the allies from gaining naval support
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To help Austria overwhelm Serbia
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To quickly attack and defeat France, then concentrate their full military on Russia
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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. 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-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Schlieffen Plan was a strategic plan to win a possible war against France and the Russian Empire, using a lightning attack to defeat France and then focusing its military resources east and defeating the Russian Empire in turn.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Schlieffen Plan’s strategy required that France be defeated swiftly – but this didn’t happen. That failure led to sustained trench warfare on the Western Front. In those grim battles of attrition, such as the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun, Allied forces ultimately outnumbered the Germans.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Conflict Grinds Along: Facing a war on two fronts, Germany had developed a battle strategy known as the SCHLIEFFEN PLAN, named after its designer, General Alfred Graf von Schlieffen. The plan called for attacking and defeating France in the west and then rushing east to fight Russia.