Zimmermann Telegram event
also: Zimmerman Telegram
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World War IIevent · 7United Kingdomcountry · 5West Germanycountry · 4Arthur Zimmermannperson · 3Mexicocountry · 3Union Intelligence Serviceorganization · 3United Statescountry · 3Woodrow Wilsonperson · 2United States Navyorganization · 1Austria-Hungarycountry · 1Japancountry · 1U.S. House of Representativesorganization · 1
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Arthur Zimmermann exposed
Zimmermann Telegram documented
“Is it legitimate? Was it fake? Well, your thoughts first. I'll just tell you right now. Zimmerman himself publicly confirmed the telegram in March of 1917. So that's what the historians are going to say. It was legitimate. But I know you've…”
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is that they could starve Britain into submission before the U.S. could mobilize. And Wilson responds by breaking diplomatic relationships with Germany on February 3rd. Now, the dates here are important. Soon thereafter, the German subs wou…
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in January of 1917, just before the German U-boats started, about the exact same time. This is a telegram from the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman, where he's supposed to have sent a secret coded telegram to the German ambassador …
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now offers the prospect of compelling England to make peace within a few months. Acknowledge receipt, signed Zimmerman. Mexico at the time was in the midst of a revolution. They did not have any military capacity to invade the United States…
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Is it legitimate? Was it fake? Well, your thoughts first. I'll just tell you right now. Zimmerman himself publicly confirmed the telegram in March of 1917. So that's what the historians are going to say. It was legitimate. But I know you've…
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the fact that this is there we've already established that they're building up a false premise for getting America into the war right anything that comes out of the UK that feeds into that narrative is suspect so I don't know that we'll eve…
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Create a telegram, pretend like it's real, and then use that as the impetus to get the United States into the war because they have no ability to know the outcome unless the U.S. gets into the war. Yeah. And if you want to start a war with …
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The Brits shared the telegram with Woodrow Wilson on February 24th. The U.S. press would publish it widely on March 1st. Now the American people are saying, you know, now they're rip-roaring ready for war. This whole anti-war isolationist s…