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What is the German strategy to try to gain and put France out of war before Russia could join?
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Why was quickly defeating France a key element of Germany's military strategy before the World War I?
Germany needed to defeat France on the Western front before Russia could prepare to attack on the Eastern front. in addition, by defeating France, it would France's military from the war and push the forces of England out of Europe.
If Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia who will defend it?
Serbia will be defended by Russia. If Russia mobilises, this brings the German warplan into play, and they must mobilise too. Since the German plan assumes beating France before fighting Russia, the assumption of Russian mobilisation brings France into the war; and since France and Great Britain are linked by an Entente this makes the conflict a global World War.
Why was quickly defeating France a key element of Germany's military strategy before World War One?
Germany needed to defeat France on the Western front before Russia could prepare to attack on the Eastern front. in addition, by defeating France, it would France's military from the war and push the forces of England out of Europe.
Was Russia already at war before World War 2?
No, Before the German attack on Russia it was not in WW2.
What was the schieffelin plan?
the German plans to invade France through belgium and overwhelm them before russia mobilized on the eastern front (used in world war one)
The triple entente alliance included which countries before world war 1?
Great Britian, France, and Russia
Early in world war 1 was germanys military strategy focused on quickly defeating russia?
In a word: No. Before WWI, Germany had devised a plan to combat the Triple Entente of Britain, France, and Russia. Their plan was called the Schlieffen Plan, after its major architecht. The plan called for a push through Belgium and Luxembourg into northern France, to knock them out of the war quickly. Then, they could focus on Russia alone. In the end, it was Russia who was knocked out of the war first.
Why Germany decide to attack France before attacking russia?
Russia was an Axis country when the Axis powers attacked the Allied nation of France. The Russians were working with Germany.
Which incident constituted the immediate cause of the world war 1?
You could say it was the assassination of the Archdule Franz Ferdinand. Strictly, it was the mobilisation of Russia in support of Serbia, which put-out the German plan. This had depended on knocking-out France before turning on Russia. Now Russia needed attacking first, so Germany had to invade France via Belgium, whose neutrality had been guaranteed by Britain.
How did France get involved in World War 1 Is it Germany's fault?
In the 1870's Russia and France made an alliance. When Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Archduke Franz Furdinan of Austria-hungry made Kaiser Wilhem II (German leader) very angry. Germany and Austria decided they needed to punish Serbia (origin of Gavrilo Princip). Russia, serbias main allie sent troops to the Russian-German border threatening to attack if they attack Serbia. Well since France had Russia's back and Russia had France's back ever since the 1870's France sent troops to there forts near the German border. Germany declares war on Serbia, Russia, and France starting WW1 or The Great War as they called it. And Germany did not start WW1 they just did the last step. The old empires of Europe were starting to tick each other off so the assasinatoin of Franz Furdinan was the last step. 2nd improved answer: The German Plan to fight the Russians & French on two fronts was for Germany to start the war against France first with a quick invasion & defeat of France. Then Germany would be free to attack Russia before they were completely mobilized. Russia was historically slow to mobilize, whereas France mobilized faster. That was the reason for the attack on France first. The real problem for Germany was that the strategy required Germany to disregard possible diplomatic efforts to avoid war, because they took time, instead forcing Germany to start the war as early as possible (August 1914). This clearly made Germany the aggressor against France and Belgium (a neutral). The invasion of Belgium brought in the British to the war. The German unrestricted submarine warfare against Britain caused the United States to enter the war against Germany in April 1917.
What country declared war on russia and France days before invading belgium?
Germany
What two large alliances took shapes before the beginning of ww1?
France and Russia.
