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Do you mean Swiss citizens or Europe/the entire world?
Switzerland was FORCED to be neutral after 1815 and the napoleonian wars, when europes powerhouses were drawing "their" Europe - the country should form a "pillow" between them.
As a consequence the neutral country didn't participate in the German-french war in 1870 or the first world war. Due to general mobilisation of a relatively big defence army (450'000 soldiers) and alpine defence fortresses, it seems that German invasion plans were postponed - the Swiss bankers and industrials dealings with the axis (and allies) can have had additional influence, but didn't cancel invasion ideas. All this together saved Swiss population of world war two - besides smaller conflicts with German luftwaffe, etc. with few solders KIA.
The status of neutral country has certainly supported Swiss bank economy.
On the other had a lot of international meetings were (and are) held in Switzerland - bringing rivals (USA, USSR (now Russia),China, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Cuba, etc.) together. Nobody can really say what possible conflicts could be cancelled this way... Switzerland is widely accepted a neutral place to meet... not giving advantages to any side. Even if UN headquarters are in the USA, it's often easier to invite the parties to Swiss UN site of Geneva.
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What US neutrality law was passed because of the rise of Hitler?
There were a series of Neutrality Acts passed in the 1930s during the rise of Hitler, the last being the Neutrality Act of 1939. The Lend-Lease Act, which was passed in 1941, officially ended America's neutrality.
What year was the oath of neutrality made?
1730
Ignores the economic consequences of a standard or rule?
Neutrality
Was the Thirty Years War a meaningless conflict?
In a sense yes. It caused a lot of bloodshed, about 1/3 population of Germany died and did very little at all. However it was successful in making the Swiss neutrality, and mapping out of Europe and territories and such. So in reality, the means idnt really add up to the ends, because there were almost no ends.
Which nationality introduced the Swatch wristwatch?
Swiss
