The Schlieffen Plan was created by the German Chief Staff Alfred von Schlieffen in 1903. His plan was to sweep around Paris and surround them so they can capture them. The plan paused it’s actions at the First Battle of the Marne which was a small distance away from Paris. French military leaders gathered two thousand taxicabs with troops to where they would stand at the front line. The Germany against France war was now an impasse due to neither of them moving to the trenches. For shelter they turned trenches into ditches. The Western Front turned into a trench warfare and both sides stayed in the same positions for four years. The Eastern Front was the opposite from The Western Front instead of staying in the same place for four years the
