HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 16 Outline of Last Lecture I. HitlerII. World War IIII. Accidental WarIV. Archduke Franz FerdinandOutline of Current Lecture II. Schlieffen PlanIII. Battle of MarneIV. Russian RevolutionCurrent LectureSchlieffen Plan -the plan was to attack France before Russia started to move their army near the German border; they believed it would take six weeks to execute the plan and before the Russians would be prepared-wanted to fight the French first because the Russians were 100 years behind on everything that could help them win any battle so they wanted to fight their ally first-assuming they have defeated the French they would move their troops to Russia for another defeat -to get to France the Germans had to go through Belgium—who wouldn’t let them through without a fight-Two problems: the battle in Belgium delayed them to finish their battle with the French in six weeks and since they had to fight an unexpected battle against Belgium they would have less troops going to Russia Battle of Marne-first battle the French fought with the Germans-the commander of the French army, Joseph Joffre decided to attack the Germans rather than waiting for them to come-after miscommunication on the German end they decided to retreat and withdraw to an area near the River Aisne These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.-the French won the war-Trench Warfare: form of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting of trenches, in which troops are protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are sheltered from artilleryStalemate: it refers to the 'trench-warfare' which consisted of miles of trenches cut into the earth which were supported by machine guns and artillery. If either side tried to move forward, they would be mowed down by the machine guns. Somany people had to die to take a few feet of ground that it was considered a stalemateRussian Revolution-March 1917 strikes (food strikes)-Lenin exiled out of Russia to Germany-Russia wasn’t prepared for war but was still sent to the front line-a government was put together that was a democratic-overthrown by the Bolsheviks-promised peace to army; land to the peasants; factory ownership to the workers-Russia had separate peace from central
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