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    The Schlieffen Plan was the German strategy for a quick victory in World War 1. It involved invading Belgium and surrounding the French armies. However, the plan failed because the Germans did not expect strong Belgian resistance and Britain entering the war. Additionally, Russia mobilized its forces faster than Germany anticipated. As a result, the Germans could not envelop the French before facing Russia, and the war became a stalemate in trenches rather than a rapid victory.

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    The Schlieffen Plan was the German strategy for a quick victory in World War 1. It involved invading Belgium and surrounding the French armies. However, the plan failed because the Germans did not expect strong Belgian resistance and Britain entering the war. Additionally, Russia mobilized its forces faster than Germany anticipated. As a result, the Germans could not envelop the French before facing Russia, and the war became a stalemate in trenches rather than a rapid victory.

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    The Schlieffen Plan was the German strategy for a quick victory in World War 1. It involved invading Belgium and surrounding the French armies. However, the plan failed because the Germans did not expect strong Belgian resistance and Britain entering the war. Additionally, Russia mobilized its forces faster than Germany anticipated. As a result, the Germans could not envelop the French before facing Russia, and the war became a stalemate in trenches rather than a rapid victory.

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    Monday, May 29,

    2023
    Why wasn’t WW1 ‘over by Christmas’?
    The failure of the Schlieffen Plan
    LO: To understand why the failure of the Schlieffen plan prolonged WW1

    Starter
    Name as many
    countries as you can
    on your map of
    Europe in 1914.

    Be neat as you will


    need this map for
    the rest of the unit
    The
    United
    Kingdom Russia
    Belgium Germany

    Austro-
    France Hungarian
    Empire
    Italy

    Se
    rbi
    a
    Ottoman
    Empire
    These are the most important, but
    well done if you named any others!
    Key Words
    • Schlieffen Plan • German army plan to
    quickly win WW1

    • Belgium • A small country between


    Germany and France.
    Protected by Britain

    • Mobilisation • When a country gets it’s


    army ready for war and
    sends soldiers to fight
    Watch the video and answer the questions
    1. What are the two rival alliances? • Triple alliance and triple
    entente
    2. Who was assassinated?
    • Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    3. Who do the Germans declare war on
    first?
    • Russia

    4. How do the Germans plan on getting


    around the French armies? • Attacking through Belgium
    instead of along the border
    (the Schlieffen Plan)
    5. Why does Britain declare war on
    Germany?
    • Because Belgium is invaded
    6. By the end of 1914 how long is ‘the
    front’?
    • 350 miles
    Russia

    Germany

    France
    Read the worksheet and answer the
    questions in your book
    1. Why did the Germans
    need the Schlieffen plan?
    2. What two things did the
    Germans not expect?
    3. Why weren’t the Germans
    quick enough?
    4. How did Russia surprise
    Germany?
    5. What did the Germans
    misjudge?
    Challenge: PEEL paragraph – Why did the failure of the Schlieffen Plan
    mean the war wasn’t ‘over by Christmas’?
    The Schlieffen Plan. Why did the plan fail?
    •The Germans knew that if there was ever a war in Europe then •The plan relied upon rapid movement. The Germans would need to
    they would end up fighting France on one side (west) and Russia quickly get their troops through Belgium and behind the French.
    on the other (east). This would put them at a disadvantage. However when they invaded Belgium the Belgian troops fought
    •They designed a plan to deal with this, the Schlieffen Plan, back. It took the Germans 2 weeks to capture the important town
    named after the man in charge of the German army. The plan of Liege so that they could continue to France. Even worse, Britain
    was to quickly attack France with most of their army and then declared war on Germany and sent her army to Belgium. All of this
    move all of their soldiers to attack Russia once France was slowed down the Germans.
    defeated. The Russian army was huge and the Germans believed •Russia mobilised its troops quicker than expected. Within 10 days
    it would take 6 weeks for the Russians to get their army ready (rather than 6 weeks) the Russians had invaded Germany, which
    and attack Germany. meant that the Germans had to switch troops away fighting the
    •Most of the French army was on the border with Germany so French to fight the Russians. So now there just weren’t enough
    the Germans needed to go around the French troops to win a troops to circle around behind the French armies.
    quick victory. They decided that by sending their troops •Finally the Germans had simply misjudged how many supplies they
    through Belgium they could capture Paris and get behind the would need. As the German soldiers got further and further from
    French soldiers. Germany it took longer for food, weapons and ammunition to reach
    •The Germans believed that the Belgians would let them pass them. By the time they reached the French soldiers, they were
    through to avoid a war. hungry and running low on bullets.
    •Britain had an alliance with Belgium to defend them if they
    were ever attacked. This was nearly 100 years old and the Germany had missed it’s chance to quickly defeat Russia and
    Germans didn’t think the British would get involved in a war. France. They were now fighting a war in the East and the West.
    •Even if Britain did defend Belgium, the Kaiser (king of
    Britain and Belgium had joined the war against them. As the
    Germany) believed that there was no need to fear the British German armies ran out of supplies they couldn’t keep fighting their
    Expeditionary Force, which he called a 'contemptible little way forward and had to go on the defensive. Both armies began to
    army'. dig trenches where they were and the 350 mile long Western
    •Having defeated France, Germany would then be able to send
    Front was established.
    all of her soldiers to fight the Russians in the east.

    1. Why did the Germans need the Schlieffen plan?


    2. What two things did the Germans not expect?
    3. Why weren’t the Germans quick enough?
    4. How did Russia surprise Germany?
    5. What did the Germans misjudge?

    Challenge: PEEL paragraph – Why did the failure of the


    Schlieffen Plan mean the war wasn’t ‘over by Christmas’?
    Self-assess

    1. Why did the 1. To win the war quickly so they


    Germans need the weren’t fighting on two fronts
    Schlieffen plan?
    2. What two things did
    2. The Belgians to fight back
    the Germans not AND the British declared
    expect? war.
    3. Why weren’t the 3. Britain sent help to Belgium –
    Germans quick this slowed Germany down
    enough?
    4. How did Russia
    4. They mobilised quickly
    surprise Germany? 5. They didn’t have enough
    5. What did the supplies for their army
    Germans misjudge?
    Plenary: PEEL paragraph to
    summarise the lesson

    One reason that WW1 wasn’t over by


    Christmas was…

    This was when…

    The consequence of this was…

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