The Schlieffen plan was a war winning plan that if worked would have properly won the war. The Schlieffen plan was meant to be very quick I was only meant to be 6 weeks long. It started as soon as the war was declared they had to get to Paris and defeat France within six weeks so they could then send all their troops to fight against Russia. First the German army had to invade Belgium on the 4th August. After doing that they would go to the French border. Then they were going to take on the French army as quick as possible march into Paris and take over it. Then they was going to go back to Germany to protect itself from the Russians who were apparently still getting ready for an attach which would have taken at least 6 weeks to plan and start an attach.
This idea was great but only if it was effective which was not the case as a variety of things went wrong. At the start when they tried to go through Belgium they came to a small problem which resulted in a quite a large one. The Belgium army faced them which meant that it slowed the Germans down and gave time for the British expeditionary force to get to France and help there French allies. Once the Belgium's was out of the way, the Germans had to walk through Belgium to get the French border which was also a quicker way of getting to Paris which meant if something held them back they would have had time to get back in time.
This idea was great but only if it was effective which was not the case as a variety of things went wrong. At the start when they tried to go through Belgium they came to a small problem which resulted in a quite a large one. The Belgium army faced them which meant that it slowed the Germans down and gave time for the British expeditionary force to get to France and help there French allies. Once the Belgium's was out of the way, the Germans had to walk through Belgium to get the French border which was also a quicker way of getting to Paris which meant if something held them back they would have had time to get back in time.