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oapen-20.500.12657-318152022-04-26T12:26:42Z Die amerikanische Verheissung Schweizer Aussenpolitik im Wirtschaftskrieg 1917/18 Weber, Florian usa world war i germany foreign policy Deutschland Schweiz Sulzer AG Vereinigte Staaten bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Abstract in English* The promise of America Swiss foreign policy amidst the economic warfare of 1917-18 The book tells the dramatic history of the final two years of World War I, during which Switzerland was in between the fronts of the world powers. The surrounding struggle for global domination caused serious difficulties for the small state. Cut off from important food imports, resulting from the indiscriminate German submarine warfare, it turned for help to the USA. The pleas of a high-ranking “Swiss Mission” sent across the Atlantic were heeded: The USA supplied the landlocked country with grain thus averting famine. While America thus boosted its reputation, the German empire became more of a threat. Agitation increased when German agents were convicted in spy scandals and trials of bombers in Zurich. Despite German propaganda, the German empire was unable to maintain its influence in Switzerland. German diplomats, as representatives of the unpopular old order, were expelled from Switzerland when the Central Powers collapsed in the fall of 1918. The USA under President Woodrow Wilson was, in contrast, enthusiastically celebrated. This study, just barely one hundred years later, enables a new view of one of the most animated periods in Swiss history, offering an opportunity to reflect on the relation of this small country to the rest of the world. 2019-03-28 23:55 2017-03-07 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:50:19Z 2020-04-01T13:50:19Z 2016 book 625139 OCN: 1020252277 9783034013697 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31815 ger application/pdf n/a 625139.pdf www.chronos-verlag.ch/php/download.php?file=978-3-0340-1369-7_Buch.pdf Chronos Verlag 10.26530/OAPEN_625139 10.26530/OAPEN_625139 1f950e02-f99d-41ce-96af-ab49518dbf62 b70636da-dc2d-4755-a37e-360db651c0bf 9783034013697 OAPEN-CH 2nd Call Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) 272 Zürich 170305 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - OAPEN-CH open access
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Abstract in English* The promise of America
Swiss foreign policy amidst the economic warfare of 1917-18
The book tells the dramatic history of the final two years of World War I, during which Switzerland was in between the fronts of the world powers. The surrounding struggle for global domination caused serious difficulties for the small state. Cut off from important food imports, resulting from the indiscriminate German submarine warfare, it turned for help to the USA. The pleas of a high-ranking “Swiss Mission” sent across the Atlantic were heeded: The USA supplied the landlocked country with grain thus averting famine. While America thus boosted its reputation, the German empire became more of a threat. Agitation increased when German agents were convicted in spy scandals and trials of bombers in Zurich. Despite German propaganda, the German empire was unable to maintain its influence in Switzerland. German diplomats, as representatives of the unpopular old order, were expelled from Switzerland when the Central Powers collapsed in the fall of 1918. The USA under President Woodrow Wilson was, in contrast, enthusiastically celebrated. This study, just barely one hundred years later, enables a new view of one of the most animated periods in Swiss history, offering an opportunity to reflect on the relation of this small country to the rest of the world.
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