Many countries in Europe made detailed war plans in the early 1900s because they felt a major war was imminent. Germany developed the Schlieffen Plan to defeat France quickly through a flanking maneuver before facing Russia, while France had Plan XVII to attack into Alsace-Lorraine. Russia planned to overwhelm Germany and Austria-Hungary with its large army size. Britain established an expeditionary force and collaborated militarily with France. All the plans assumed the war would be brief due to economic pressures, though no one planned for a prolonged conflict.

4. It is a primary source because it was written by Gottileb von Jagow, the German Foreign Secretary in May 1914 . we can learn how people felt about the war that had recently ended, and that they thought that there hadn’t been a single thing that could have prevented their victory or defeat.The purpose of this source was to express the feelings and the opinions of the people of that time. I t is a valuable source because we can learn from the emotional attachment of the author with the country, but it has limitations because the author is to involved and the source might not be so reliable Source II

5. Larg e and well-equipped army Plan of attack: Plan XVII Was the name of a "scheme of mobilization and concentration" War between France and Ge rmany Was implemented as an offensive into Alsace-Lorraine France Troops would charge across the frontier to attack

6. Russian army Badly equipped Huge Plan: to overwhelm Germanys and Austrias armies by sheer weight of numbers Two different plans for war Russia

7. Mili tary pla ners Closely but secretly envolved in colaboration with french comanders Britain set up : The britis h expediotionary force We ll-e quipped pro fessi onal soldiers Britain

8. Kingdom of Hungary Monarchic union between Crowns of the Austrian Empire Austria – Hungary They needed help from Germany, they relied in the Schlieffen Plan success

9. One thing that unites all of these plans was the assumption that a war, if and when it came, would be quick. These military plans were designed to achieve a quick vistory. No one planned for what to do if the war dragged on. It was almost universally assumed that none of the powers would be able to keep up a long-drawn-out war. The sheer cost of a war would lead to economic collapse and so the war would be over in a matter of weeks or months. With so much talk of war and plans for war, you might think, as many at the time did, that war was inevitable, and it was. Conclusion

10. Bibliography History Book: GCSE Modern World History by Ben Walsh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Moroccan_Crisis