The First World War (a) Explain how the Schlieffen Plan was meant to work (7) <Tab/>The Schlieffen plan was the strategy that was supposed to allow the German army a swift and deceive victory over France in a short space of time so that the German army could be rushed to the boarder to hold up the Russian 'Steamroller' <Tab/>Germany had one of the best transport …
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…stalemate was finally broken we can clearly see that all the factors may not have been as important as each other but more importantly was that they were all dependant upon each other. For instance if you take the factor of new technology out of the equation of breaking the stalemate all the other factor would have had a different effect upon on the war and the breaking of the stalemate would not have happened.