USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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What was the Zimmerman Telegram? And how did it lure the U.S. into the war?

(A) it tried to get Italy to fight with the Allies

(B) ** it tried to get Mexico to join Germany against the U.S.

(C) it tried to get Russia to fight with the Central Powers

(D) t tried to get Mexico to fight with the U.S.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -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.