Military strategy in World War I was influenced by technological advances in warfare and the physical landscape of battlefields. The weapons were almost evenly matched for each side. Machine guns, more precise rifles, but also tanks and planes have changed warfare. The trenches constituted the common defense during the war. With newly created weapons and a predominantly defensive war strategy, the war was often at a stalemate. The trenches stretched from the English Channel, across the countryside to the neutral border of Switzerland. This was not the Germans' plan but their failed Schieffe Plan called to defend themselves from the Allies. The Schieffe Plan was supposed to be a quick solution to defeat the French by attacking with an offensive method. The Germans would attack through Belgium and reach Paris, defeating the French. After the French were done, the next target would be Russia. This rapid attack was supposed to have ended before the Russians could mobilize. Instead the English entered the war against the invading Belgium and supported the French on the Western Front. The Germans could not resupply quickly enough and were spread out across the countryside making them vulnerable to attack. Having almost reached Paris, the French troops attacked the German flank. They were practically pushed back towards the Belgian border and a stalemate ensued. Germany could not fight a two-front war and expect to win. They had to deal with the Russians on the eastern front and the French and English on the western front. With both fronts he also isolated Germany and Austria-Hungary. They were easily blocked by Allied naval power due to their location on the map. They are not open to the world by sea and the Allies at... middle of paper.... This was done on purpose in an attempt to prevent something similar to WWI from happening again. They started the war and were not treated as badly as Germany was. Austria and Hungary were never as powerful as they once were. The Allies won World War I because they made the Central Powers pay. This was a payment by land or money, as for Germany it was both. The Allies did not consider anything that could benefit the former enemy and this was because they wanted to ensure that nothing similar to World War I would ever happen again. Another victory was the creation of the League of Nations, another security network that was supposed to help the free world emerge from another deadly war. It was a good idea on paper but in reality it never stopped the conflict. The Allies later admitted that they were harsh on Germany because the actual war did not begin, but the Allies won in the end.