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-Fearing the French forts on the border with Germany, Schlieffen suggested a scythee-like attack through Holand, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The rest of the German Army woudl be sent to defensive positions in the east to stop the expected Russian advance.
-On 2nd August 1914, the Schlieffen Plan was put into operation.
-August 4th 1914, Britain entered the war. The Schlieffen Plan had nto taken that into consideration.
-British resistance at Mons and the slow retreat after the battle agve the French more time to prepare for the Germans attack.
-Kluck, the German commander in France, saw that he could not keep to the Schlieffen Plan because of the resistance from the British.
-Kluck changed the plan of attack; instead of going around Paris the Germans turned south. This left the Channel ports along the coast free from attack--and enabled British reinforcements to get to France.
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-Germany created a Navy as a challenge to Britain. The French won victories in the center.
-In 1915-16, the GErmans drove the Russians back, leaving Russia with 2 million deathes as they retreated. This crumbled many trenches and created huge pits of death in the mud.
-Defending the trenches was an easy task. Both the French and Germans losses were equally heavy. 124 of them were Americans, which demanded that the all-out campaign be stopped. British failure made Bulgaria enter the war on Germany's side in October 1915. Men spent countless hours in muddy rat-infested pits surrounded by dead bodies.
-In August, at Amiens the British defeated Germans--in what Ludendorff called the blackest day in the history of the German army. on 11 November 1918 the Great War came to and end. However the bombings acted as a warning for the opposition, giving them time to set up and prepare for the troops advancing from the trenches.
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