... plan was that Britain gyaranteed Belgiums neutrality with the Treaty of London. Britain might enter the war if Belgium was attacked. The Outbreak of War France was happy to be going to war, there was a sense of settling old scores after a humiliating defeat by Germany in 1871. Russia saw the war as an exciting affair and saw the soldiers "dancing" off to war. Even the Germans thought of the war as a good thing. 1914 - The war begins... What went wrong with the German plans? 1. The Schlieffen Plan * It started off well, Moltke who had taken over from Schlieffen had led his army off to war and taken: Liege, Luxembourg, Brussels, Lille and Riems. * By September they were within 20 miles of Paris. But then Schlieffen Plan went wrong: * The Belgians defied Germany and put up more of a force than expected. Although they were defeated, they took many more men than ...

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