How did the Schlieffen Plan lead to ww1?
The Schlieffen Plan was drawn up in 1905 and amended in 1906, as a response to both the Entente Cordiale signed by Britain and France in 1904, and the Franco-Russian alliance signed after the disastrous Russo-Japanese war of 1905. Alfred Graf von Schlieffen [known in English as Count Schlieffen] was Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1891 to 1905. He was charged with putting in place a response to a presumed attack by Russia and France at the same time. The amendment was undertaken by Helmuth von Moltke after Schlieffen retired in 1905 at the age of 72, and it became a little less belligerent towards other European countries “on the way to France”, so to speak. The Plan said, in effect, that a threat from EITHER Russia or France should be regarded as an attack by BOTH. The German response should be to invade and subdue France immediately, and then turn the major military force against Russia. In July 1914, the German Imperial Command made two significant mistakes in applic
