WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Question
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The Schlieffen Plan was designed by the German military to
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A address U.S. troop deployments in France.
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B strengthen the defense of Germany’s colonies in Africa.
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C neutralize Great Britain’s naval control of the North Sea.
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D avoid the problem of fighting Allied powers on two fronts.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Schlieffen Plan, battle plan first proposed in 1905 by Alfred, Graf (count) von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff, that was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-front war.
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.
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