Zimmermann

Zimmermann Between 1914 and the spring of 1917, the European nations engaged in a conflict that became known as World War I. While armies moved across the face of Europe, the United States remained neutral. In 1916 Woodrow Wilson was elected President for a second term, largely because of the slogan "He kept us out of war." Events in early 1917 would change that hope. In frustration over the effective British naval blockade, in February Germany broke its pledge to limit submarine warfare. In response to the breaking of the Sussex pledge, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Germany. In January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. This message helped draw the United States into the war and thus changed the united, states, telegram, war, german, british, 1917, germany, zimmermann, woodrow, wilson, story, pledge, opinion, minister, mexico, message, intelligence, february, american, world, while, warfare, waited, von, upon, until, turned, tuchman, thus, territory, term, sussex, submarine, students, spring