LEADER 03107 am 22005413u 450 001 9910166643903321 005 20240219074119.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000001092160 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32745 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001092160 100 $a20170313d2016uuuu fy| 0 101 0 $ager 135 $aurm|#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aDie amerikanische verheissung $eSchweizer aussenpolitik im wirtschaftskrieg 1917/18 /$fFlorian Weber 210 $aZürich$cChronos Verlag$d2016 210 1$aZürich, Switzerland :$cChronos Verlag,$d2016 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (271 pages) ;$cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 225 0 $aDie Schweiz im Ersten Weltkrieg$v1 311 08$a3034013698 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 3 $aThe 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. 606 $aWorld War (1914-1918) 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zSwitzerland 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSwitzerland 607 $aSwitzerland$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aSwitzerland$xForeign relations$zGermany 607 $aSwitzerland$xEconomic conditions$y1918- 610 $ausa 610 $aworld war i 610 $agermany 610 $aforeign policy 610 $aDeutschland 610 $aSchweiz 610 $aSulzer AG 610 $aVereinigte Staaten 615 0$aWorld War (1914-1918) 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 676 $a940 700 $aWeber$b Florian$0876468 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910166643903321 996 $aDie amerikanische verheissung$91975766 997 $aUNINA