Schlieffen Plan
The Schlieffen Plan;
Make sure you have detailed factual knowledge about AND HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT the following issues and topics:
WHY DID THE SARAJEVO ASSASSINATION LEAD TO THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN 1914? 1. A description of the Schlieffen Plan. 2. The significance of the Schlieffen Plan.
and, although it is not on the syllabus, it would be wise to know: 3. Where the Schlieffen Plan went wrong.
WHY DID THE SARAJEVO ASSASSINATION LEAD TO THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN 1914?
The Schlieffen Plan
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Revision Focus This is a Paper 1 topic, so concentrate on learning: 1. WHAT happened 2. EFFECTS/ Importance Linkse-book on events leading to the outbreak of WWI.
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Significance of the Schlieffen Plan(ARE)
Where the Schlieffen Plan went wrong(WEAK BE)
3.
Aggressor: The plan began to go
wrong on 30 July 1914, when Russia mobilised its army, but
France did not. Germany was forced to invent a
pretext to declare war on France (3 August 1914) = made Germany
look like the aggressor (and led to Article 231 of the Treaty of
Versailles)
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