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Zimerman notes. Note Taken! An Analysis of The Zimmerman Telegram As late
as January 22, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson acted as ...
... it will be seen in the morning, date books, lists, reminder notes, and have a ... Oxford
University Press, 2002, p. 9. 11Geller B, Williams M, Zimerman B, Frazier J ...
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Note Taken!
An Analysis of The Zimmerman Telegram
As late as January 22, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson acted as a peace maker vying to bring the war in Europe to a close through agreement rather than by force, for fear that a militant ending and settlement would not last. In February, as a result of two actions of the German government, the desire of the people and government of the United States to remain neutral dissolved rapidly. These events were the resumption of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare and the discovery of the Zimmermann Telegram and its contents. Unrestricted submarine warfare meant that any ships, whether enemy mobilization carriers or neutral merchant ships, caught within the area Germany defined as "blockade zones" was to be stopped "with every available weapon and without further notice." The Zimmerman Telegram proposed that Mexico form an alliance with Japan and join the Central Powers against The United States if the U. S. entered the war to aid the Allied Powers. In return, the Germans would help Mexico reconquer territory lost within the States. The U.S. government was enraged and felt betrayed in their quest for peace, while the public turned from a desire for neutrality and urged for the first time that the U.S. enter the war. This new attitude of the public supported President Wilson and drove the United States first to a state of armed neutrality and eventually into the World War.
To better understand why the contents of the Zimmerman Telegram had such a strong effect on the United States, a brief summary of early 20th Century relations between the U. S., Japan, and Mexico is necessary. In 1895, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, astonished by Japan's defeat of China in battle, expressed to the world his expectation of Japan rising in the near future into a leading world power, declaring their presence as the "Yellow Peril." Following the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, the Japanese continued...
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