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The Zimmerman Telegram which pushed the U.S. to enter World War 1 exposed Germany's plan to?
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The Zimmerman telegram was a secret message sent to the Mexican government. In it, the German government offered to send money and weapons to help Mexico if Mexico would start a war against the United States. Germany expected the US to soon join World War I against them, and hoped that a war with Mexico would distract the US.
A little context- by 1917, the US and Mexico had poor relations. It had only been 68 years since the US fought and won a war against Mexico, and took all of what's now the Southwest (NM, AZ, CA, etc). The US had occasionally invaded parts of Mexico for one reason or another since then too- even in 1916, after Mexican rebels had attacked a town in New Mexico, the US sent an army under General Pershing to invade Mexico and punish those rebels (they were unsuccessful).
So Zimmerman sent the message explaining that if Mexico started a war against the US, then Germany would send money and weapons to help. Additionally, Germany promised that if they were able to win World War I, they would make sure that Mexico got back the territory that the US had taken from them.
However, since 1910 Mexico was in the middle of a nasty war called the Mexican Revolution. So Mexico was in no position to launch a major war against the US. Additionally, Germany realistically had no way to ship the money and weapons to Mexico, since Allied navies dominated the seas. Nor would Mexico really have anyplace to use the money Germany would've sent, for much the same reason. So the Mexican government did not agree to the request.
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