How did the war

start?
Getting ready to fight the Great War

Learning Objective
To

investigate the
German and French
plans for war in 1914

Look at this picture?

What/who does the
picture represent?
What does it tell us
about WWI?

Look at this cartoon,

what does it tell us
about how the war
started?

Look at this picture.

What does it say about
how the war was
fought

Meet the Germans

He did not
want to have
to fight both;
Russia and
France, at the

Russia would take at

least 6 weeks
to
mobilise.

France would be easily

defeated in 6 weeks.

Belgium would not resist

any German attack.

Britain would remain

In reality
2nd August 1914, the
German Army invaded
Luxembourg and Belgium as
the plan had advised.

The Germans were held up

by the Belgium Army, backed
up by the BEF (British

Russia mobilised in just 10

days!
Germany was forced
to withdraw troops from the
Schlieffen plan to defend the
eastern front.

Germany were met by the

French at the battle of the
Marne (5-11 Sept) which halted

Meet the French

The French Soldier

This is a picture
of a typical
French soldier in
1914. What do
you notice about
him?