History A-Level

Military plans

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Rigid mobilisation schedules, such as Germany's Schlieffen Plan and France's Plan XVII, that created a dangerous inflexibility and meant military logic often overrode political negotiation.

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2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941 (A-level only) – The Great Powers and Crises, 1900–1911 (AQA A-Level)

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