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The second world war, more changes than thought

The Schlieffen plan was what Germany taught as a fast win in the war, this plan

consisted in using the giant territory in their favor. Russia was a big country which will take

a long time to arm completely taking into account that they weren’t industrialized, Alfred

Graf von Schlieffen new that a two front war could be terrible, so he carted a plan where

France was attack, dominated and then Russia but there was miscalculation in the entrance

of one specific country England. France had mor fort’s and defenses which was taught I the

German border, this changed the plan completely for Germany, so they diced to go through

Belgium a neutral country[ CITATION Rog1 \l 3082 ]. These undiplomatic action trigger

Great Britain to enter the war. In the second world war something similar happened, Hitler

went to power and Britain practice isolation hopping to end the war on a Diplomatic way,

but Germany wasn’t planning to give up his plan on conquering Europe, at one point he

invaded Poland and finally the Allies told him to retreat or accept war, he attacked Poland

with Russia’s help in September the first of 1939 and England declare war[ CITATION His09

\l 3082 ]. But I think that even though Germany was defeated in both wars, to what extent

the miscalculation of the British entrance of both wars’, still change’s for Germany in the

second World War?

Both of these miscalculations have two things in common. The first thing is

neutrality at the begging in both of the wars Britain tries to solve things using on a Neutral

way but in both of the war’s these neutrality makes more damage than good[ CITATION

How \l 3082 ]; In the first world war they don’t quiet involve when France asks for support

and in second world war the prime minister Neville Chamberlain tries to use an
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Appeasement which will basically crate a “negotiation” between two countries to avoid

war. But these former policies aren’t effective and lead Hitler to conquer more and more

country’s leaving the prime minister as not incompetent and being posteriorly replaced by a

new one Winston Churchill in May of 1940.[ CITATION The \l 3082 ] Another form of

continuity on the miscalculations of Germany is the invasion of Neutral country, these acts

of invading country’s that aren’t related to the war are commonly taken as undiplomatic

action because they violated treaty’s between countries. The Invasion of Belgium on

August 4 of 1914 was a violation to treaty of London of 1893 where Belgium remained as a

Neutral country[ CITATION Sté18 \l 3082 ], this same pattern is visible in the invasion of

Poland on September 1, 1939. Where Germany brake’s the appeasement with Britain.

In addition, both miscalculations lead to the failure of Germany’s war strategy, but

in this point is where both wars differ. In the first world war the entry of British since the

begging generated a significant problem for the Schlieffen Plan, the failure of this plan lead

Germany to a hard moment in war by allowing a two front. These two front wars were the

worst nightmare of Germany because this will imply that Germany needed to double every

resource they had. They needed to double the supplies, the man, the food etc. Even this

enter of Britain eventually crated a new way of war, The trenches. These new ways were

one of the cruelest forms of war; the soldiers were exposed to all kind of unsanitary

conditions, also the casualties raised up and so did the supply’s and the mental health

problems.
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On the other hand, the entrance of Britain in the second world war didn’t had such a

strong impact on Hitler’s strategy. Despite the fact that Britain at that time wasn’t one of

the strongest countries in Europe at the time economically speaking, the previous actions of

appeasement didn’t leave them on a very strong political position, besides their unfavorable

positions when France mobilized millions of their troops to the front after the Phony War,

Britain only send 200,000 men to fight the border. These lead to Germany continues

expanding all the way Europe, which didn’t happen in the first world war.

The miscalculation of Britain in both world war led Germany to have a change of plans,

regardless in the first world war the Britain entry in the first world war hade more impact in

German military strategy, this entry required the German’s to retrieve themselves from

invading one of their allies (France). But this changed in the second world war France was

invaded due to the poor support that Britain gave, in addition Germany used France against

the after they won a fight taking most of French troops and just taking the coastal areas for

defense but allowed France to continue to “live” but under German submission. This

strategy aimed to force England to submit and call for a peace agreement. In the other hand

continuity is also visible in the second world war one example of it is the German plan of

avoiding double front war. In conclusion the second world war had more events of change

that was originally taught on the begging, but at first glance it can go unnoticed.

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