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What were Germany’s greatest fears in Europe? What kind of war

was she desperate to prevent?

Who were her two greatest enemies?

______________ &_______________

What was her strategy for fighting the war and preventing it from
becoming unwinnable?

THIS WAS THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN

The Schlieffen Plan rested on four assumptions: List them below

1)__________________________________________________
2)__________________________________________________
3)__________________________________________________
4)__________________________________________________

What would happen to Germany’s plans if everything they assumed

would happen actually didn’t happen?
What actually happened?
1 2

3 4

5 6

At the end of the summer all of Europe was at war, the

German Army’s plans for a swift advance had failed and
resulted in_________. There was now a line of trenches
from the ______ to the ________. This was now not a
war of __________ but a war of _____________. In the
next four years France would become a bloody
battleground. Troops would face each other in lines of
_________ and millions would be killed.

Alps, Position, Manuveur, Coast, Stalemate, Trenches.