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Schlieffen Plan Outline

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The Schlieffen Plan
3/16/17
Jacob Letson
Tensions were rising at the dawn of the 20th century as the major powers of Europe were preparing for war. Germany appointed a general by the name of Count Alfred von Schlieffen in the late 1800’s and he was assigned to create a plan to take over France and deal with Russia in an effective and wise way. 1903 was when the Schlieffen Plan came into existence and then it was later revised in 1905. The plan had German troops go through Belgium and push into France to push French troops out of Northern and Central France. Schlieffen believed that it would take 6 weeks for France’s ally, Russia to mobilize their troops because of the fact that they had just recently lost a war against the Japanese. If they
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