03107 am 22005413u 450 991016664390332120240219074119.0(CKB)3710000001092160(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32745(EXLCZ)99371000000109216020170313d2016uuuu fy| 0gerurm|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDie amerikanische verheissung Schweizer aussenpolitik im wirtschaftskrieg 1917/18 /Florian WeberZürichChronos Verlag2016Zürich, Switzerland :Chronos Verlag,2016©20161 online resource (271 pages) ;illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)Die Schweiz im Ersten Weltkrieg13034013698 Includes bibliographical references.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.World War (1914-1918)World War, 1914-1918SwitzerlandUnited StatesForeign relationsSwitzerlandSwitzerlandForeign relationsUnited StatesSwitzerlandForeign relationsGermanySwitzerlandEconomic conditions1918-usaworld war igermanyforeign policyDeutschlandSchweizSulzer AGVereinigte StaatenWorld War (1914-1918)World War, 1914-1918940Weber Florian876468UkMaJRUBOOK9910166643903321Die amerikanische verheissung1975766UNINA