Slide 1 WWI: TOTAL WAR The Schlieffen Plan Fails: Trench warfare & technology Slide 2 Schlieffen Plan: Avoiding a Two Front War European war - Germany would face France…

Slide 1The Schlieffen Plan Slide 2 The aim of the ‘Schlieffen Plan’ was to defeat France as quickly as possible, thus taking it out of the war. Then German forces could…

Slide 1  By: Jules Kadien Slide 2  The German Officer Alfred Von Schlieffen came up with what seemed to be a genius plan to win French territory before the war began…

PowerPoint Presentation In 1914, Germany believed war with Russia was extremely likely. If war broke out, Germany assumed France would also attack as she was both an ally…

The Schlieffen Plan Germanyâs plan to âhit firstâ, if they should feel war is inevitable II. The Idea In 1905, Alfred von Schlieffen (a German general) argued that if…

SCHLIEFFEN PLAN Strategic plan created by General Alfred von Schlieffen in 1907 to counter a joint attack on Germany from two fronts (east and west) France and Russia Schlieffen…

Europe Plunges into War Europe Plunges into War Stalemate, Schlieffen Plan August 1914 Battle lines clearly drawn- both sides mobilized Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary,…