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German Plan for victory-Schlieffen Plan, Eastern and Western Fronts

German Plan for victory-Schlieffen Plan, Eastern and Western Fronts. Ryan Traylor, Mariah Hobbs, Justin Dennis, Chelsea Tyson. The Schlieffen Plan was created by Count Alfred Von Schlieffen. It was created in December of 1905

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German Plan for victory-Schlieffen Plan, Eastern and Western Fronts

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  1. German Plan for victory-Schlieffen Plan, Eastern and Western Fronts Ryan Traylor, Mariah Hobbs, Justin Dennis, Chelsea Tyson

  2. The Schlieffen Plan was created by Count Alfred Von Schlieffen. • It was created in December of 1905 • It was a plan to strategically win in a future war fighting on two fronts, France at the West and Russia to the east. • For the plan to work the country would need speed to execute it.

  3. Germany needed to avoid a two front war. • Germany concentrated troops in the west to quickly defeat the French, but if needed, rushing the French troops by rail to the east to face the Russians. • Germany knew that the Russian technology wasn’t as advance, as the French so they wouldn’t be much of a problem.

  4. Eastern front: • Three million died in the fighting, nine million wounded • Russian and Germans fought, Austrians joined in • It started August 17, 1914 • Russian General- Pavel Rennenkampf’s first army invaded eastern Prussia • Alexander’s second army attacked Germanys right flank

  5. Western front: • Trench Ware far • Ran 700 kilometers from the Belgium Coast to the Swiss boarder • British, France, U.S., Vs Germany, Austria Hungary • Started August 3, 1914. • Ended November 11, 1918 • 14 years 3 months 1 week

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