Alfred Von Shlieffen

When Germany declared war on Russia in 1914, they also had their own military plan, which called for a two front war with France and Russia. It was called The Schlieffen Plan and was developed by General Alfred von Schlieffen in 1903 but was revised in December of 1905. At this time, he was chief of the German General Staff, and Europe was separated into the Triple Alliance, which consisted of Germany, Austria, and Italy, on one side and the Triple Entente, which consisted of Great Britain, France, and Russia, on the other. Schlieffen was sought out by the Kaiser in order to construct an arrangement that would allow Germany to

The Schlieffen Plan was created by Alfred von Schlieffen, and he created it to avoid fighting both France and Russia at the same time. The problem was that France and Russia were on opposite sides of Europe. Which meant they would have to split their army in half. The Schlieffen Plan stated that Germany would defeat France while Russia would be mobilizing itś army. They assumed that Russia would take six weeks to mobilize,and that France was weak and Russia was strong. They didn´t think that GB would be fighting for France because of the treaty signed seventy - five years ago. The Schlieffen Plan had many flaws and assumptions.But instead of taking six weeks Russia took ten days, and started fighting when they weren't ready. Which made

Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the Imperial German General Staff, created The Schlieffen Plan for war against France and Russia. It was designed to avoid a two front war. Seven eighths of german troops were sent to surround the strong french defenses by going through Belgium and the Netherlands while a third were ready at Germany and France’s border to attack. After the success of the attack on France, they planned to send the rest of the troops to Russia. Germany had no plan for dealing with Russia once the troops got there.

The Schlieffen Plan was a German battle plan to fight a two front war devised in 1905 by Alfred von Schlieffen as the Chief of the General Staff for Germany. The plan called for the German army to apply overwhelming force in France to capture the capital of Paris within six weeks before changing focus to Russia. The plan intended to achieve a quick and decisive victory by sweeping a line of armies through neutral Belgium and into France. In actuality, Helmuth von Moltke made significant changes to Schlieffen’s original plan before and during World War I. Ultimately, the plan ended in failure when the German advance halted at the First Battle of the Marne (Limbach, 2014).

     Before World War 1 Europe was in the mind set for war, as I have described above, countries were expanding their armies and making plans for war. One of the most famous plans of war was the Schlieffen plan. This plan devised by General Von Schlieffen was based on mass mobilisation. It was believed that in the event of a war it would take Germany thirty-six hours to mobilise, France forty-eight hours and Russia three weeks (Europe Since 1870 105). The Germans would thus attack France first and then after defeating France go on to attack Russia. From these plans we can see that the Chiefs of Staff in Europe were expecting and planning for a war. The military leaders

von Moltke, believed that the July crisis was a good time for Germany to go to war in order to prevent being crushed by the entente powers and to preempt Russian mobilization in order to be able to fulfill the Schlieffen plan. Also, war was a good means of distraction from domestic problems in Germany, like the rise of socialist movements. For the Entente Powers Russia, France and Great Britain war was favorable because it gave them the possibility of weakening Germany, which had grown to a big threat for these powers. According to Pearce and Lowe, Great Britain had shown its will for war through the naval talks with Russia in 1914. Nonetheless, there is some ambiguity about Great Britain longing for a war of this scale. For Russia, war was favorable because it had to show strength after some weak responses to the Balkan Crises. Through the general mobilization, Russia reinforced this will. Only France did not really want to get involved in a large scale after the defeat in the Franco-Prussian war of 1871. Nonetheless, France had to mobilize after the German side took up the Schlieffen Plan.

Alfred von Schlieffen built this plan around the inevitable outcome of a two front war. It was inevitablele that Germany was going to have to face

Germany's plan was to avoid fighting a catastrophic defensive war on two fronts, because they felt threatened by not only Russia, but France and Britain as well, who were both "rivals" of Germany and allies of Russia at the time. Therefore, they planned, in the event of a massive threat or attack, to quickly defeat France to stop a destructive attack from the Western Front, and then focus on the main problem on the Eastern Front, which involved the Balkans, Serbia, and

One of the main factors causing the outbreak of The Great War was the aggressive sentiment of a recently unified Germany. With a pervasive feeling of nationalism, and a sense of entitlement as a world power, Germany had the need to satisfy its growing development, and therefore the need to secure its importation of natural resources. Industrialized and militarized, and feeling confident after the relatively easy victory of the Franco-Prussian War, Germany was prepared for a multi-front offensive with the secretive Schlieffen Plan. Several factors strained Germany’s relations with its neighbors. Confrontational rhetoric from Kaiser Wilhelm II, who represented the sentiment of a modern generation in Germany, acrimonious feelings from missed opportunities

The Schlieffen Plan was the German’s plan for war against France and Russia. It was created by Alfred von Schlieffen who was the German Chief of Staff in 1903 on the request of Kaiser Wilhelm II and it was later revised in 1905. The reason it was made was because Germany’s unification came later than other European states. So the Kaiser sought out Schlieffen and directed him to devise a plan that would allow Germany to gain power and assert itself as a dominant state. Since France and Russia were in an alliance Germany was not able to just attack one country. They would be forced to fight both countries in a two front war. Schlieffen concluded that it would take Russia six weeks to mobilize while France and Germany could both be prepared for battle within fifteen days.

In 1914, Germany believed war with Russia was exceptionally likely.  If war was to commence, Germany assumed France would also attack as they were both an ally of Russia and keen for revenge for her defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. If this were to have taken place, Germany would have to face war on two fronts. Germany desired to steer clear of this at all costs. Germany schemed to conquer France and then turn to the eastern front for a major attack on Russia.

During World War I, Germany was involved in a two front war with France, Britain and Belgium on the Western front and Russia on the Eastern front. In hopes of preventing a loss in the war, Germany devised the Schlieffen plan to ensure victory; However, not only did their plan for war fail to recognize potential threats and factors, but their lack of communication and cooperation also contributed to an overall defeat. Germany’s loss in the two front war and World War I was ultimately the fault of their poor strategizing.

This is a vast oversimplification but the Schlieffen Plan was Germany’s plan to invade France and Russia during WW1. It was conceived in 1903 by Germany’s Chief of staff Alfred Von Schlieffen and was revised in 1905 almost 9 years before the war.

The Schlieffen Plan was under the guidance of General Alfred Von Schlieffen. This plan called for a “two front war” between France and Russia. A Two Front War is when a war takes place on two geographically separate fronts. France and Russia had formed an alliance in 1894.

Germany went into WWI with the upside of an expansive, extremely all around prepared, and exceptionally very much prepared armed force. One-on-one, they could in all likelihood have crushed some other nation on the planet, yet they weren't simply battling one adversary. They were dwarfed, and their rivals had admittance to much more noteworthy assets. In the event that the Schlieffen Plan had been executed legitimately in august 1914, Paris would have been caught, and the French would probably have requested a peace negotiation. in this way finishing the war rapidly and to support Germany. They likewise could have won if in 1918,Germany had exploited Russia's withdrawal from the war so that they would move every one of their troops and assets