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Why was Switzerland neutral through the first and Second World War

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To keep the country safe from the Allies and Axis powers, the Swiss used a strategy called “armed neutrality,” requiring maintaining a sizable army to isolate itself within the country's frontiers and allowing it to defend against foreign incursion.

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