![]() Pancho Villa - Uncle Sam Berryman CartoonĪn educational resource for New Mexico high school history programs. The Zimmermann Telegram was a diplomatic note sent by the German Foreign Office to Mexico in January 1917 which proposed a military alliance between the two nations should the United States enter World War I (1914-1918) on the side of the Allies.General Francisco (Pancho) Villa on Horseback The Zimmermann Telegram Espaol In January 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. The Zimmermann Telegram was a coded message sent in January 1917, as WW1 was raging in Europe, from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to Germanys.Hand Carving up a map of Southwestern United States.Mexican War 1914: Large Group of Federal Prisoners.Please call the President's attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England in a few months to make peace." Signed, ZIMMERMANN On JanuBritish signals intelligence intercepted and decrypted a coded German telegram from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann that was intended for Germany’s ambassador to Mexico. You will inform the President of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. After having remained neutral in the war for nearly three years, several events in 1916 and early 1917 occurred which brought America into the war against Germany. "We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. The Zimmerman Telegram was an important piece of America's decision to enter World War One. The coded message was intercepted and deciphered by the British Secret Intelligence Service, Military Intelligence, Section 2 (MI2). Germanys issuing of the Zimmermann Note (also called the Zimmermann Telegram) during The Great War (WWI) would be among the most disastrous plans in the. The Zimmerman telegram appears to be the evidence needed to bring the United States into the war and save the beleaguered Allies. This message helped draw the United States into World War I and thus changed the course of history. ![]() The Zimmermann Telegram was a 1917 coded message from the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckard, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. ![]()
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