USA HISTORY

Use the list below to answer the question.The Zimmerman Note * An attempt by German officials to keep the United States focused on other security issues* Mexico was offered an opportunity to regain lost territory What was the U.S. response to this note?

(A) ** The support for isolationism began to decline.

(B) The number of American troops in the Philippines increased.

(C) The neutrality treaties with neighboring countries ended.

(D) The deployment of American troops to Cuba began.

Concept note-1: -The telegram was considered perhaps Britain’s greatest intelligence coup of World War I and, coupled with American outrage over Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare, was the tipping point persuading the U.S. to join the war.

Concept note-2: -Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war.

Concept note-3: -Mexico was a neutral country in World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918.

Concept note-4: -The State Department promptly sent a copy of the Zimmermann Telegram to President Wilson, who was shocked by the note’s content and the next day proposed to Congress that the U.S. should start arming its ships against possible German attacks.