Schlieffen Plan

Examples of Schlieffen Plan in the following topics:

• The Western Front

  • This was a modified version of a German invasion blueprint known as the Schlieffen Plan, named for Germany Army Chief of Staff Alfred von Schlieffen, who designed the strategy to quickly overwhelm the French Army.
  • In its original form, the Schlieffen Plan called for German forces along the French border to attack to the south in areas such as Strasbourg and then pull back in a feigned defeat, causing the French Army to surge south with reinforcement troops and leave the north weakened, thus allowing Germany to push down from the north and make a move to encircle the French forces.
  • This was countered, however, when the new chief of staff, Helmuth von Moltke, diverted from the original plan and attacked in the south rather than fall back.

• The European Crisis

  • The German Empire mobilized its troops on July 30, 1914, ready to apply the "Schlieffen Plan," a quick, massive invasion of France meant to demolish its army.
  • The plan, however, required German troops to pass through the neutral nation of Belgium on its way to northern France.

• The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

  • The Plan was largely the creation of State Department officials such as George F.
  • The Marshall Plan was originally scheduled to end in 1953.
  • American Republicans hostile to the plan had also gained seats in the 1950 Congressional elections, and conservative opposition to the plan was revived.
  • One of a number of posters created to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe.
  • Assess the role of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan in the escalating Cold War

• The Virginia and New Jersey Plans

  • The New Jersey plan was created in response to the Virginia Plan, which called for two houses of Congress both elected with apportionment according to population.
  • Large states supported this plan and smaller states generally opposed it.
  • The plan proposed:
  • Ultimately, the Virginia Plan was used, but some ideas from the New Jersey Plan were added.
  • House of Representatives, apportioned by population as desired by the Virginia Plan, and the Senate, granted equal votes per state as desired by the New Jersey Plan.

• The Healthcare Plan of 1993

  • The Clinton health care plan was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the plan, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
  • However, opposition to the reform plan was heavy from conservatives, libertarians, and the health insurance industry.
  • Democrats, instead of uniting behind the President's original proposal, offered a number of competing plans of their own.
  • The Clinton health plan required each U.S. citizen and permanent resident alien to become enrolled in a qualified health plan and forbade their dis-enrollment until covered by another plan.
  • It listed the minimum coverage and maximum annual out-of-pocket expenses for each plan.

• The Albany Congress and the Intercolonial Defense

  • Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan for uniting the seven colonies that greatly exceeded the scope of the congress.
  • The original plan was heavily debated by all who attended the conference, and numerous modifications were proposed until the plan proceeded to be passed unanimously.
  • The delegates voted approval of a plan that called for a union of 12 colonies.
  • The Union Plan included all of the British colonies in North America, except Delaware and Georgia.
  • The plan was also rejected by the Colonial Office.

• Civil Rights Under Nixon

  • The task force's plan made federal aid and official meetings with President Nixon available as rewards for school committees who complied with desegregation plans.
  • The Philadelphia Plan was based on an earlier plan developed in 1967 by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance and the Philadelphia Federal Executive Board.
  • The plan was quickly extended to other cities.
  • The Philadelphia Plan was challenged in the lawsuit Contractors' Association of Eastern Pennsylvania v.
  • Shultz, et al, but the court upheld the plan and the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal.

• A New Constitution

  • This plan also proposed a bicameral legislature.
  • This system of equal representation was detailed in William Paterson's New Jersey Plan.
  • This plan proposed a unicameral legislature in which each state, regardless of size, would have one vote.
  • New Jersey Plans was contentious and almost threatened to shut the convention down.
  • The Compromise indicated that each state would be given equal representation (as per the New Jersey Plan) in one house of Congress and proportional representation (as per the Virginia Plan) in the other.

• The Cold War Begins

  • The Cold War began with the formation of the Eastern Bloc, as well as the implementation of the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Blockade.
  • The Soviet Union promoted the ideology of communism, which was characterized by a planned economy and a one-party state.
  • The plan also stated that European prosperity was contingent upon German economic recovery.
  • Stalin opposed the Marshall Plan.
  • The Soviet Union's alternative to the Marshall plan, which was purported to involve Soviet subsidies and trade with eastern Europe, became known as the Molotov Plan.

• Lincoln's Plan and Congress's Response

  • This policy was meant to shorten the war by offering a moderate peace plan.
  • Lincoln's plan successfully began the Reconstruction process of ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment in all states.
  • Congress reacted sharply to this proclamation of Lincoln's plan.
  • The Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln's plan because they thought it too lenient toward the South.
  • As opposed to Lincoln's plan, this new bill would make readmission into the Union more difficult.