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Assessment 1: part B A stalemate developed on the Western front for several reasons. Firstly the Schlieffen Plan failed; the German government blamed it on leading general count Helmuth Von Moltke. The new general, changed the plan, instead of putting 10% of the German army at Alsace Lorraine he decided 40%, leaving only 60% to go through Belgium. The plan was based on having such a large army go through Belgium, so that they could take France quickly. Instead it was reduced because General Von Moltke decided it was safer to have 40% of the army at Alsace Lorraine in case the French tried to invade Germany. In August, Germany invaded Belgium. The Germans had assumed that Britain would ignore the 1839 guarantee of Belgium neutrality, but Britain stood by it and declared war on Germany on the 4th August. Within a week 120,000 troops of the British Expeditionary Force had been...

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