Western and Eastern fronts of World War I
Schlieffen Plan and the First Battle of the Marne
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- ever since the frankel persian war in eighteen seven eighty teen seventy-one
- the germans recognize that they were likely to face another worth france that
- was a war that allowed germany to unify the humiliated france
- they were able to capture of some very valuable territory from france in
- particular alsace lorraine which is very mineral rich
- and so the germans were plotting to uh... what are we going to a free into
- another war them
- at the same time once france and russia had this alliance germany fully
- recognize that they were if there is a war with friends
- it's likely to not be just with france it's likely to be a two-front war
- on the western front will be awarded will be they'll be in conflict with
- france and on the eastern front
- building conflict with russia
- answered a deal with this eventuality this is all the scheming to germany did
- in the decades going up too
- world war one
- they came up with the sleep in plan i'm sure i'm mispronouncing it slight
- financially fit in
- cially fen
- solely for street vendors life and
- plan named for alfred bond street and he was chief of the
- german empire general staff from eighteen ninety-one to nineteen oh five
- and it was based on how do you deal with the two front war
- and the general ideas here were that russia
- russia had a large in almost inexhaustible army but because it was so
- large it would take a long time for tomorow belies
- long time
- to mobile lives
- and the germans are actually able to approximate it correctly 'cause this is
- how long it did take the russians demobilize of the uniformed one war war
- one
- the estimated it would take them about six weeks
- so this life in nor sleet and plant called for
- another german troops on the eastern front and michelly
- in order to keep the russians at bay but then the main fighting force of the
- germans
- while the russians are mobilizing
- is to go after france and try to assessing knock france out of commission
- so that they're not facing a two-front war anymore
- and that have those troops go back to fight against the russians
- and the way that they wanted to do it
- is by rolling through belgium and kind of a wheel like pattern like this
- and the reason why they want to do this we'll like pattern is that the correctly
- predicted but the french were very eager to get this territory right over here
- and the french actually had a plan the club plan seventeen for going after al
- six or eight was an offense a plant
- and the views of the french army is going in that direction if the german
- army rolls through belgium in is able to get them from the rear
- they could put the french army out of commission
- so in early august nineteen fourteen
- the germans was a declared war on france and on russia
- the germans tried to put this leaf in plan into action and they frankly almost
- succeeded
- so through a parole officer through august an early september the germans
- were able to
- essentially rolled through belgium
- were able to to roll prove belgium
- and keep
- the combine mainly french forces but there is also some assistance from
- british to keep them on their heels
- and this happened all the way until early september
- when they get near the marin or a little bit past the marin river in france
- and it was here
- that the first that the
- sixth french army
- so i want to talk about armies
- we're talking about huge numbers of troops the the sixth french army had
- over two hundred thousand troops that we're talking about
- the battle of the margaret m about to talk to were talking about a the first
- about lamar we're talking about
- bathtub battle
- that involves to million troops abuser
- these are battles that are occurring on a topic scale just each of these armies
- this army ordered the this one writer or that even the the german armies
- we're talking about
- hundreds tens of tens to hundreds of thousands of troops in general an army
- characterize you're talking about
- over fifty thousand sixty thousand troops
- so what happens as you go to or early september specially september fifth
- nineteen fourteen
- the six th
- french army
- recognize recognizes a mistake
- that the first german army made bibd
- trying to roll around like this
- and exposed they're right flank
- so great over here would be the right flank
- of the german army
- just is of of no other of most men walls are flanks are kind of our are weak spot
- that that area between your ribs in your hips
- the same thing is true for armies
- the front
- of the army tends to be where you have the strongest forces and then you have
- your supply routes going back so if you can outflank an army that's why a lot of
- military strategy is designed around you can hit an army and its weaker point so
- by september i september fifth the first german army recognizes but it was too
- late by september sixth they were at in battle they were uh... they were
- essentially being confronted
- by the sixth french army
- and by essentially turning to meet them
- by turning to meet them
- the creating opening between them and the second german army in that
- that opening was able to the the french and the british were able to take
- advantage of that
- to essentially
- put the germans on the heels after a month of advancing
- and so right over here you have the various
- you have the various you know the various french armies
- and they were assisted by the british expeditionary
- the british expeditionary force
- and so from
- the battle of the marin
- which was essentially most
- most historians would say between september sixth
- or september fifth september sixth of september twelfth
- they were able to put
- the the router mins on the retreat
- the germans recruited pass the and revert
- and then once you get into november in the end of year of nineteen fourteen
- antisense the germans assessing entrench themselves and literally they were
- building rebuilding deep trenches
- n
- northern france in a little bit of western belgium and what i have a right
- over here
- landed see if i could write what i have read or hear what the boundaries were
- eventually happened after
- the german suffers that she their first big defeat they had to recruit
- that retreat
- and they have to literally retrench and this is what the borders would then be
- like and they were and and these were literally trenches getting a dog here
- and these borders art dealers for stage of the word was shows lead and amich you
- had
- armies moving fairly rapidly over a period of weeks and months
- but then was the germans retrenched
- you have a roughly disposition being static for the next three years in the
- famous trench warfare of the western front
- you might have seen movies on
- and i want to emphasize this was a big deal the first battle of the marshall
- dot sometimes called the miracle of the mark
- if that
- if the allies at the french with the british help
- were not able to push the germans back
- they might have accomplished thus leaf in plan actually maybe it would have won
- world war one
- or at least been able to win the western front fairly quickly and then been able
- to deal
- with the russians a little bit better but because of the miracle at the
- margaret was hugely bloody were talking about five hundred thousand casualties
- on both sides
- we're talking a hundred to two hundred thousand dead on both sides but because
- of that that was able to hold off the germans
- but it got the western front in this kind of wildly
- three year long
- trench
- warfare
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