![]() ![]() The Zimmerman telegram clearly helped draw the United States into the war and thus changed the course of history. Germany broke its pledge to cease inrestricted submarine warfare, and sent this telegram to the German Minster to Mexico, offering United States territory. On April 6, 1917, Congress formally declared war on Germany and its allies. On February 24 Britain released the Zimmerman telegram to Wilson, and news of the telegram was published widely in the American press on March 1. As Germany lacked a direct telegraph line to North America, the Zimmermann Telegram was transmitted over American and British lines. ambassador to Britain, a copy of the Zimmermann Telegram, a coded. In response, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Germany in February. This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the United States entry into World War I. ambassador During World War I, British authorities give Walter H. Germany's Foreign Secretary, Arthur Zimmerman, sent a secret telegram to Mexico, proposing an alliance and promising support for Mexico to. Germany, feeling the pinch of a British blockade, resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, knowing it could provoke the US. What changed in America A single Western Union telegram, composed and sent in code from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the government of Mexico. Meanwhile, frustration over the effective British naval blockade caused Germany to break its pledge to limit submarine warfare. President Wilson kept the US neutral in World War I until 1917. The Zimmermann telegram was a coded note sent by Germanys Foreign Minister, Arthur Zimmermann, in January 1917 with a message for the Mexican government. In an effort to protect their intelligence from detection and to capitalize on growing anti-German sentiment in the United States, the British waited until February 24 to present the telegram and its translation to U.S. In return for the military alliance, Germany would help Mexico regain New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona from the United States. The obvious threats to the United States contained in the telegram inflamed American public opinion against Germany and helped convince Congress to declare war against Germany in 1917.īritish intelligence had intercepted the telegram and deciphered it. German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann sent this encoded message to the President of Mexico on January 16, 1917, offering United States territory. German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann sent this encoded message to the President of Mexico on January 16, 1917, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause in World War I. On 16 January 1917, German Foreign Minister Zimmermann sent the German Minister in Mexico an enciphered message with a proposal to be. ![]()
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