The Schlieffen Plan ( , ) was a name given , after the First World War , to German war plans , the influence of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on an invasion of France and Belgium which began on 4 August 1914 .

In writings from the 1970s , Martin van Creveld , John Keegan , Hew Strachan and others , studied Education_teaching the practical aspects of an invasion of France through Belgium and Luxembourg .

The planned Arranging operation Military_operation was canceled Change_event_time when Japan surrendered Surrendering following the atomic bombings Attack of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , the Soviet declaration of war Hostile_encounter and the invasion Attack of Manchuria .

Later , in the spring of 1946 , Operation Coronet was the planned Arranging invasion Attack of the Kantō Plain , near Tokyo , on the main Japanese island of Honshu .

Japan 's geography made this invasion Attack plan quite obvious to the Japanese as well ; they were able to accurately predict the Allied invasion Attack plans Arranging and thus adjust Change their defensive Defending plan Arranging , Operation `` Ketsugō '' , accordingly .

Japan 's geography made this invasion Attack plan quite obvious to the Japanese as well ; they were able to accurately predict the Allied invasion Attack plans Arranging and thus adjust Change their defensive Defending plan Arranging , Operation `` Ketsugō '' , accordingly .

Depending on the degree to which Japanese civilians would have resisted Defending the invasion Attack , estimates ran Self_motion up into the millions for Allied casualties Death .

Operation Downfall was the proposed Creating Allied plan Arranging for the invasion Attack of the Japanese Home Islands near the end of World War II .

Sources for the history of the invasion Attack .

In the final year of the war , the Allies prepared GetReady for a very costly invasion of the Japanese mainland .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Marathon ( ) took place Process_start in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece .

The first Persian invasion was a response Response to Athenian involvement in the Ionian Revolt , when Athens and Eretria had sent Sending a force to support the cities of Ionia in their attempt to overthrow Removing Persian rule .

The defeat at Marathon marked Recording the end of the first Persian invasion of Greece , and the Persian force retreated Escaping to Asia .

After Darius died Death , his son Xerxes I restarted Process_start the preparations for a second invasion of Greece , which finally began Process_start in 480 BC .

The invasion Attack began Process_start with Charles 's crossing Motion_directional of the Vistula on 1 January 1708 , and effectively ended Process_end with the Swedish defeat Conquering in the Battle of Poltava on 8 July 1709 , though Charles continued to pose a military threat to Russia for several years while under the protection of the Ottoman Turks .

The invasion Attack of Russia by Charles XII of Sweden was a campaign undertaken during the Great Northern War between Sweden and the allied states of Russia , Poland , and Denmark .

In the years preceding the invasion Attack of Russia , Charles had inflicted Bodily_harm significant defeats Conquering on the Danish and Polish forces , and enthroned Change_of_leadership the puppet king Stanislas Leszczyński in Poland .

Charles was a skilled military leader , and probably considered the invasion Attack to be a risky enterprise ; he had resisted Defending the advice of his generals to invade Attack during the Russian winter following Self_motion the first Battle of Narva ( 1700 ) .

The invasion Attack was further complicated by the scorched earth strategy formulated Communication by Peter and his generals .

He chose Choosing to continue his invasion Attack now because he expected Swedish reinforcements and the alliance of the Cossacks under Ivan Mazepa .

The consequences of the failed invasion were far-reaching .

While militarily just as strong as the Romans , the internal division between the Gallic tribes helped ease Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale victory for Caesar , and Vercingetorix 's attempt to unite Cause_to_amalgamate the Gauls against Roman invasion came too late .

although caesar portrayed this invasion as being a preemptive and defensive action , most historians agree Agree_or_refuse_to_act that the wars Hostile_encounter were fought Hostile_encounter primarily to boost Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale caesar 's political career and to pay Commerce_pay off his massive debts .

The Italian invasion Hostile_encounter of France , also called Name_conferral the Battle of the Alps ( 10–25 June 1940 ) , was the first major Italian engagement Participation of World War II and the last major engagement Participation of the Battle of France .

The city was taken on 25 August as part of the invasion of Portugal by a Spanish army commanded Control by the Count of Aranda .

The French invasion Military_operation of Russia , known Know in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 ( ) and in France as the Russian campaign ( ) , began Process_start on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon 's crossed Motion_directional the Neman River in an attempt to engage Participation and defeat Conquering the Russian army .

At the start of the invasion , the numbered around 685,000 soldiers ( including 400,000 soldiers from France ) .

The , made up Becoming_a_member of French and allied invasion forces , was reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to a fraction of its initial strength .

Soviet Hungary was soon overthrown Change_of_leadership by a Romanian invasion Attack and , after a brief revival Recovering of the People 's Republic , the monarchy was restored Recovering , although as an independent country .

The Germans had rapidly overwhelmed Destroying France and the Low Countries , leaving Departing Britain to face Confronting_problem the threat Terrorism of invasion Attack by sea .

British attention then shifted Change to Greece , which was under the threat of Axis invasion .

The offensive Attack reversed Change the United Nations Command ( UN ) advance towards the Yalu River which had occurred Presence after their intervention in the wake of the North Korean invasion of South Korea at the start of the war .

so severe was this threat that a major invasion of the spanish philippines had been planned Arranging from british india during 1797 , but had been called Name_conferral off following the treaty of campo formio in europe and the possibility of a major war in india between the british east india company and the kingdom of mysore .

The Invasion of Ceylon was a military campaign fought as a series of amphibious operations between the summer of 1795 and spring of 1796 between the garrison of the Batavian colonies on the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) and a British invasion Attack force sent Sending from British India .

The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been in progress Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale since 7 July 1937 , with hostilities dating back as far as 19 September 1931 with the Japanese invasion Attack of Manchuria .

The war culminated Process_end in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and other large aerial bomb attacks Attack by the Allies , accompanied GetReady by the Soviet Union 's declaration Expressing_publicly of war and invasion Attack of Manchuria and other territories on 9 August 1945 , resulting in Causation the Japanese announcement Expressing_publicly of intent to surrender Surrendering on 15 August 1945 .

East German forces , except for a small number of specialists , did not participate Participation in the invasion because they were ordered Arranging from Moscow not to cross Motion_directional the Czechoslovak border just hours before the invasion Attack .

the invasion Attack successfully stopped Process_end alexander UNK 's prague spring liberalisation reforms Reforming_a_system and strengthened Cause_change_of_strength the authority of the authoritarian wing within the communist party Social_event of czechoslovakia ( unk ) .

The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia , officially known as Operation Danube , was a joint Collaboration invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union , Poland , Bulgaria , East Germany and Hungary – on the night of 20–21 August 1968 .

The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia , officially known as Operation Danube , was a joint Collaboration invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union , Poland , Bulgaria , East Germany and Hungary – on the night of 20–21 August 1968 .

East German forces , except for a small number of specialists , did not participate Participation in the invasion because they were ordered Arranging from Moscow not to cross Motion_directional the Czechoslovak border just hours before the invasion Attack .

on 25 december 1978 , vietnam launched a full-scale invasion Military_operation of kampuchea and subsequently occupied Control the country and removed Removing the government of the communist party of kampuchea from power .

It had been prompted Causation by the actions of the Zirid ruler Tamim ibn Muizz ( reigned Control 1062–1108 ) as a pirate in waters off the Italian Peninsula , along with his involvement in Sicily fighting Hostile_encounter the Norman invasion .

The campaigns Military_operation of Yi were vital in halting Preventing_or_letting the Japanese invasion Attack .

Three days after the invasion Attack the city was still in German hands and the operation was amended Change .

although a british frigate squadron under josias rowley was under orders Arranging to eliminate Removing the french raiders , rowley was distracted by the planned Arranging invasion of unk bonaparte , which began Process_start the following week .

With the French Mediterranean Fleet at sea , Emperor Napoleon I hoped to unite Collaboration it with the French Atlantic Fleet and together form a force powerful enough to temporarily displace Destroying the British Royal Navy Channel Fleet for long enough to allow Preventing_or_letting an invasion Military_operation force to cross Motion_directional the English Channel and land Self_motion in Britain .

With the planned Arranging invasion impossible , Allemand began Process_start commerce raiding Attack in the Eastern Atlantic , capturing Conquering 43 merchant ships during his cruise and successfully disrupting Hindering the British blockade Besieging of Cadiz .

A British invasion Attack of Martinique took place Process_start in January 1759 when a large amphibious force under Peregrine Hopson landed Arriving on the French-held island of Martinique and unsuccessfully tried to capture Conquering it during the Seven Years ' War .

The Uzbek invasion of Khorasan took place Process_start in 1578 .