"The Problems of Food Supply for Finland and Her Official Recognition from 1917 to 1919"

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Ages of World Wars, grade: 2,0, Turun Yliopisto (University of Turku) (Faculty of Humanities/Baltic Sea Region Studies Program, University of Turku), course: The United States and Northern Europe - Diplomatic Relations since 1918, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the early years of Finnish independence from 1917 on, Finnish foreign policy was tied to two major problems. First, the White Finnish Government was seeking to obtain international recognition for the new state. Secondly, more urgent and immediate, it had to get access to foreign supplies of foodstuff since the quality of nourishing in Finland had become devastatingly low in the young republic. In this term paper I wish to attempt an explanation of Finland's policy during her early years of independence and put her diplomacy into its historical context and comparing her interests with that of the U.S.A. and Germany. In my opinion, these were the countries, besides Russia, that influenced Finland's policy the most during that period.