Germany's Use Of The Triple Entente

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).

The Schlieffen plan was made in 1905 by Alfred von Schlieffen. It took almost 9 years to devise the plan. He started making the plan in 1897 and presented in 1905. After a year the plan was revised again (1906). The Schlieffen plan was a plan of attack for Germany, mobilization and war were the same thing. The Schlieffen plan was also the only Germany’s plan for war ("GCSE Bitesize: Extra Facts." BBC. BBC, n.d Web.). Some of the reasons this plan failed was because. the lack of communication between the soldiers and their leaders and, the leadership that the leader led them throughout the plan, the amount of assumptions that the Germans made during the plan and the bad planning of the plan and the resistance of the Belgium army. The

In February 1891 Count Alfred von Schlieffen was appointed Chief of the Prussian General Staff, a post which he held until the end of 1905. The most important responsibility of the General Staff was to produce the annual deployment plans, which stipulated how the German army was to be drawn up ready for battle in case of war. The initial pattern of deployment was the basis of the operational plan for the conduct of the war itself. The General Staff routinely tested these war plans in studies and exercises. During most of Schlieffen’s time as Chief of Staff, the essential strategic problem for Germany was indeed the likelihood that the next war would have to be fought against two enemies on widely separated fronts, the French in the west and the Russians in the east. Schlieffen never found a convincing solution to this problem. His suggestion was to deploy much greater forces on one of the fronts in order to defeat that enemy quickly and decisively, and then to use rail mobility to reinforce the other front and win a decisive victory there too. That sounded fine in theory, but when it was tested in exercises it proved hard to achieve. An initial victory on one front could not be fully exploited because of the need to switch forces promptly to the other front. Once that happened, the first enemy

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

The Schlieffen Plan was a plan for an attack on France. This was created by General Count Alfred von Schlieffen in 1905. He was chief of the German General Staff, and believed that the best area for any war in Europe would be

When the war broke out, Schlieffen was no longer chief-of-staff and Helmuth von Moltke took his place. Moltke made a few changes in the original Schlieffen Plan.

In 1905 Germany developed the Schlieffen Plan which meant that they would be prepared to fight two fronts in a war, the plan established the fact that France was weak and likewise Belgium and could fall easily, giving Germany secure control over the west. Upon AustriaHungary's declaration of war on Russia committed Germany to two fronts potentially too early. With a war looming and a large military presence, nationalist views and a war-ravenous leader, Wilhelm led Germany to a world of

As have been said that Germany shouldn’t have been involved in WWI, on the other side they have too. Because Germany is one of the most powerful countries in Europe and if there was a problem/war, they have to be there as having the most power authority. Germany has to be in WWI as it’s, because they have to aid’s their alliance/partnership Austria-Hungary.                      As have Germany has been there in WWI, we are gonna discuss about the Germans military plan, troops, and trenches.  The chief of the German General Staff was Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, he is the one who has planned the whole war for Germany.  German soldiers have been told from the beginning that, if they lost the war, they should reward everything back to the government's.

took out the German infantry and stopped Germany from expanding; this was also a big

However, due to lack of regulation from the high command and disagreements between commanders, deviation from the original plan was inevitable. Alexander von Kluck, the commander of First Army, decided to swing his forces south towards Northern Paris to chase the the retreating French Fifth Army. By deviating away from the original plan, von Kluck opened up his right flank. The French learned about this vulnerability from air-surveillance and proceeded to advise the Sixth Army to move in to attack the flank. They widened the gap between the German First and Second Armies which allowed the French Fifth Army, reinforced by the British Expeditionary Force, to move into the opening. This push prompted an order to retreat from Moltke. After backtracking 40 miles, the German forces dug in north of the River of Aisne. The Schlieffen plan had now failed as the Germans did not overcome France with haste and the long years of war began.

Even though they had worked hard, they had lost 90, 000 men and had gained no land. Trouble continued with the French, in the town of St. Mihiel Salient their soldiers began breaking out into fights and they started losing their best men. French General Joffre had noticed how weak their army had become. He ordered two plans to organize the front and improve their army (Book, 181). Between the fronts the lookouts were heavily wired, the trenches 20 yards apart and 10 yards deep (Book, 181-182). Behind the fronts, the area had been improved with bullet proof shelters for the soldiers. Joffre ordered for a second line of trenches to be dug. He wanted as little men in each line as possible, as he thought to many men was “wasteful”. Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria managed to take over no man’s land and began to redig trenches closer to his enemies to begin raiding their areas. Their first raids took place on November 9th and 10th of 1914 near Ypres. They would use their height to attack, and the German’s picked up on this strategy and began to copy it for their own battle purposes (Book, 182). After some time, they went back to trench lines that were already prepared twenty miles away. Before this, the Germans had

However, I know from my own knowledge that the German’s invented the Schlieffen Plan, a German battle plan that was made many years prior to 1914 as a way to prevent a war on two fronts, implying that they would be at war at some point. This shows aggressive intent and would contradict the views of source 1 and the statement above, and yet agree with those of source two.

When the Germans came within about 20 miles from Paris, the commander of the French army, General Joseph Joffre, formed a new Sixth Army to protect Paris while he was also communicating with his subordinates and planning a counterattack on the Germans with the rest of his armies. This newly recruited army was a great advantage over the exhausted Germans who had been marching and fighting for over 300 miles. Perhaps the defining factor in the Germans’ loss was their armies’ lack of communication. The German chief of staff General Helmuth von Moltke was over 200 miles away in Luxembourg, and his generals did not know what each other were doing. The crucial turning point (in the direction of defeat) for the Germans was on September 6th, when General Michel-Joseph Maunoury and his troops got to the battle front in Parisian buses and taxis, causing General Alexander von Kluck (of Germany) to quickly move southwest to meet the attack, which created a gap between his troops and those of General Karl von Bulow’s Second Army that was northeast of the

Characterized by the declaration of war, the amassing of vast battlefield formations, and the use of new technologies, such as the machine gun and airplane, World War I was the epitome of conventional war. The myriad of alliances across Europe in the early 20th century allowed military leaders to carefully craft offensive plans of war focused on the weaknesses of known enemies and designed to swiftly defeat opposing military forces. For example, Germany’s Schlieffen Plan “assumed that the Reich could only win a two-front war by crushing France before Russia could mobilize.” Capitalizing on the lightly defended French north, a result of France’s assumption that Belgium’s neutrality would not be violated, and