This is false. There were several Five Year Plans in the Soviet Union, but the original Five Year Plan was pursued by Stalin, who sought to collectivize the agricultural system in order to speed up industrialization.
The Schlieffen Plan's strategy required that France be defeated swiftly – but this didn't happen. That failure led to sustained trench warfare on the Western Front. In those grim battles of attrition, such as the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun, Allied forces ultimately outnumbered the Germans
They had successfully organized workers into unions.
