The Transatlantic Dynamics of European Cultural Diplomacy: Germany, France and the Battle for US Affections in the 1920s

The article explores the role of cultural diplomacy in Weimar Germany and France's competing efforts to win sympathies support United States after First World War. In post-war States, both France used initiatives pursue their opposing visions new international order: maintain extend wartime alliances beyond armistice implement provisions peace treaty; overturn these very build a desirable transatlantic ‘friendship’ line with its revise Versailles Treaty. By focusing on Franco–German rivalry for US affinities, calls attention dynamics interwar diplomacy. It shows that emergence German was strongly shaped by French competition affections politically isolationist Americans that, general, rapid expansion Europe arose from mutual feelings crisis, starkly ambitions as well circulation ideas practices.