aug 3, 1914 - Tyskland erklærer krig mot Frankrike og invaderer Belgia

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Alfred von Schlieffen (former chief of staff of the German army) long held plan for a two-front war against France and Russia was initiated. Hours later, France makes its own declaration of war against Germany, readying its troops to move into the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, which faced Germany and had been forfeited in the settlement that ended the Franco-Prussian War, 1871.

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