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When World War I broke out in July 1914, Europe’s major powers were already prepared for a large-scale conflict, having spent years building armies, expanding navies, and developing detailed mobilization plans. Germany had the Schlieffen Plan, designed to defeat France quickly before turning east against Russia, while France prepared to recover Alsace-Lorraine and Russia maintained plans for mobilizing its enormous army. Austria-Hungary prepared to confront Serbia, while Britain relied on its powerful navy and the British Expeditionary Force to support France. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, alliances, military timetables, and mobilization orders rapidly turned a regional crisis into a continental war. Within weeks, millions of soldiers were moving toward the front, and Europe entered a conflict its governments had spent decades preparing for.
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