The Germans had become involved in the first world war after there was a declaration of war against Serbia by their ally, Hungary.
The Germans had started the first world war through what was the Schlieffen Plan. Through the plan they fought the war on two fronts.
They invade France through Belgium in the West and then invaded Russia through the East.
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