![]() We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. The telegram instructed Eckardt that if the United States appeared certain to enter the war, he was to approach the Mexican government with a proposal for military alliance with funding from Germany. Zimmermann sent the telegram in anticipation of the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany on February 1, which the German government presumed would almost certainly lead to war with the United States. The message was sent to the German ambassador to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt. The message came in the form of a coded telegram dispatched by Arthur Zimmermann, a Staatssekretär (a top-level civil servant) in the Foreign Office of the German Empire on January 17, 1917. ![]() The decryption was described as the most significant intelligence triumph for Britain during World War I, and it marked one of the earliest occasions on which a piece of signal intelligence influenced world events. It helped to generate support for the American declaration of war on Germany in April of 1917. Revelation of the contents enraged Americans, especially after German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admitted on March 3 that the telegram was genuine. The telegram was intercepted by British intelligence. With Germany's aid, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. Americans were already angry over German submarines sinking ships, but this telegram is what made America come into the war.The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. The United States of America announced war on Germany on April 6, 1917. Congress accepted the request on April 2, 1917. Wilson asked the United States Congress for a Declaration of war against Germany. The telegram made the American people angry. President Wilson published the telegram so the people would know about it. They gave it to President Woodrow Wilson of the United States of America. They held on to the telegram until February 24, 1917. Mexico was already busy with the Mexican Revolution and did not like the idea. Germany wanted Mexico to enter the war so America would be too busy to help the enemies of Germany. These places were Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Germany promised to help Mexico take back land the United States had taken from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. ![]() ![]() The telegram told the ambassador to ask the Mexicans to join the war on the German side by attacking America. 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 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. "We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. The telegram's message was: FROM 2nd from London # 5747. Bernstorff then sent it to the German ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt. Zimmermann sent it to the German ambassador in the United States, Johann von Bernstorff. Zimmermann was the German Foreign Secretary (took care of things with other countries). It is named for the German man who sent it, Arthur Zimmermann. It was what made America enter World War I. The Zimmermann Telegram (also called the Zimmermann Note) was a telegram sent to Mexico from Germany on January 16, 1917. The Zimmermann Telegram as it was sent from Washington to Ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt
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