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Clasp Of Germany

Published on Nov 22, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

EXPLOSION

  • Four decades prior to August 1914 the western world were having undergoing many changes.
  • Industrial expansion and wealth, both personal and national, had a profound impact on economic life.
  • All of these changes lead to conflicts.

stalemate

  • Both sides believed that the Great War would be over quickly.
  • . In Germany, this belief was based on a long established war strategy called the Schlieffen Plan
  • It first plan was to capture Paris in 42 days
  • The German armies would then shift their focus to the eastern front and defeat the Russians before they were fully prepared to fig

COLLAPSE

  • Russia got Knocked out of the war by revolution.
  • Germany had stopped the allies.
  • But all of Europe was running out of men; both sides were drafting old men and young boys.