Nigel de Grey came up with the plan to use the telegram to change the course of World War One Zimmermann had sent instructions to approach the Mexican government with what seems an extraordinary ...

British Foreign Affairs Office, London, February, 23rd 1917. In the afternoon, Arthur Balfour, the foreign secretary of the ...

But as the war unfolded in Europe, an intercepted telegram sent by the German Foreign Secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the Mexican government inflamed the U.S. public opinion and was one of the ...

By then, the United States was already on its slow and inexorable path to war with Germany and, in the telegram, German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann instructed his ambassador in Mexico on ...

Chances are that you have studied the Zimmermann Telegram in a history class, but have you ever actually seen the coded message? German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann sent the diplomatic ...

Signed, ZIMMERMANN. Zimmermann Telegram Decimal File, left, and decoded Zimmermann Telegram, 1917.National Archives and Records Administration Though the War Department report acknowledged — as ...

Fortunately for the Allies, British intelligence held a trump card in the form of the Zimmermann Telegram, containing Germany’s sensational proposal of an alliance with Mexico and Japan against ...

One hundred years ago, on Feb. 26, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson learned about the telegram that would pull the U.S. into World War I. The Zimmermann Telegram—a secret offer by Germany to help ...

In “Decoding the Zimmermann Telegram, 100 Years Later” (op-ed, Feb. 24), Arthur Herman contends that before entering the war in 1917 Woodrow Wilson had been scrupulously neutral. That is not ...

Nigel de Grey came up with the plan to use the telegram to change the course of World War One Zimmermann had sent instructions to approach the Mexican government with what seems an extraordinary ...

Thomas Boghardt, author of The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War One, explained why Germany s… read more Thomas Boghardt, author of The ...