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The Schlieffen Plan was a battle plan that was first proposed by General Count Alfred von Schlieffen. The battle plan was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-front war. The plan was later edited and changed by Helmuth von Moltke. Moltke's modifications, which included the reduction in size of the attacking army, were blamed for Germany's failure for a quick victory. In fear of a two-front war with France and Russia, mostly after France's signing of an Entente Cordiale, which was an agreement that ended oppositions between Great Britain and France in 1904, led Schlieffen to devise a military strategy against encirclement, a military term for when a force or target is isolated and surrounded by enemy forces. The Schlieffen plan proposed the swift defeat of France in a scythe-like maneuver through Belgium and Holland, with the goal of cutting Paris off from the sea. The majority of the German Army was to focus on defeating France while a much smaller contingent focused on keeping the slowly mobilizing Russians at bay in the east.

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