Unit 4: The Twentieth-Century Crisis - barren.k12.ky.us

The war escalated as Germany put the Schlieffen Plan into effect. Named for Count Alfred von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff from 1891-1906, this plan aimed at going around French defenses by sweeping through Belgium to the English Channel, then wheeling to the south and east to overpower the French and crush them against the German fortresses in Lorraine. ................
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