Zimmermann Telegram

Examples of Zimmermann Telegram in the following topics:

• America's Entry into the War

  • By 1917, events such as unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany and the Zimmermann Telegram led the U.S. to enter the war.
  • The German Foreign minister, in the Zimmermann Telegram, told Mexico that U.S. entry was likely once unrestricted submarine warfare began, and invited Mexico to join the war as Germany's ally against the United States .
  • British intelligence intercepted the telegram and passed the information on to Washington.
  • A photo of the Zimmermann Telegram.
  • This telegram was important in pushing the US away from neutrality and towards entry in World War I.

• Intervention in Mexico

  • Although the Zimmermann Telegram affair of January 1917 did not lead to a direct U.S. intervention, it also exacerbated tensions between the US and Mexico.

• The Banana Wars

  • The Germans were actively arming and advising the Mexicans, as demonstrated by the 1914 SS Ypiranga arms-shipping incident, the establishment of German saboteur Lothar Witzke's base in Mexico City, the 1917 Zimmermann Telegram, and the presence of German advisors during the 1918 Battle of Ambos Nogales.

• Last Efforts for Peace

  • Final efforts for peace were abandoned when German Foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann approached Mexico seeking a military alliance, promising the return of lost territories in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
  • After the so-called Zimmermann Telegram was intercepted and decoded by British cryptographers, outraged American public opinion now overwhelmingly supported Wilson when he asked Congress for a declaration of war on April 2, 1917.

• Wilson and Latin America

  • Although the Zimmermann Telegram affair of January 1917 did not lead to a direct U.S. intervention, it also exacerbated tensions between the US and Mexico.

• Origins of the Cold War

  • Kennan delivered a memo from his post in Moscow which came to be known as the Long Telegram.
  • The Long Telegram sought to explain recent Soviet behavior to Kennan's superiors in Washington, and further advised a hard line against the Soviets.
  • That September, the Soviets produced the Novikov Telegram.
  • This telegram, sent by the Soviet ambassador to the US, portrayed the US as being in the grip of monopolistic capitalists bent on building up military capability "to prepare the conditions for winning world supremacy in a new war."

• Containment in Foreign Policy

  • He responded with a wide-ranging analysis of Russian policy now called the "Long Telegram" .
  • Clark Clifford and George Elsey produced a report elaborating on the Long Telegram and proposing concrete policy recommendations based on its analysis.

• Containment

  • Kennan known as the "Long Telegram."

• Watergate

  • Telegrams flooded the White House, and the House of Representatives began to discuss impeachment.

• Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI

  • Final efforts for peace were abandoned when German Foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann approached Mexico seeking a military alliance.