Explain How the Schlieffen Plan was meant to Work.

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Explain How the Schlieffen Plan was meant to Work

Schlieffen was the leader and chief of the general staff of the German army.  He also created the Schlieffen plan.  Alfred Von Schlieffen devised this plan in 1904.  The plan started to take place in August 1919.  He created it so that Germany would not have to fight a war on two fronts and so they could be stronger because of they fought on two fronts they would have to split their army into two and set them to fight in different parts of their country.  Instead, they all fought together and planned to invade two countries at different times so they are stronger.  

The plan was designed so that Germany would not have to fight on two fronts.  A war on two fronts is a bad thing because while fighting in the wars, each part of the country fighting two wars would be a lot weaker, smaller, and more tired than if they fought one war or more all together because they wouldn’t have to split their army, they could join all their army together and become stronger.  

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The Germans planned to invade France by going through Belgium because they could then form a “hammerhead” by going through Belgium and then invading Paris assuming that the rest of France would give up once the Germans invaded their capital at all their borders which were not defeated.  They also expected Belgium to sit back and allow Germany to just go straight through their country.  

It was crucial that Germany took over France in three weeks or less as they planned because if it took longer than those three weeks, Russia would be prepared for fighting against Germany in ...

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