The Zimmerman Note was a telegram send from the German Empire to Mexico asking them to declare war on the United States in 1917. It was a coded telegram that came from Arthur Zimmerman, the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire that was sent to the German ambassador in Washington, D.C. which was then forwarded to the German ambassador in Mexico. The telegram said that if the neutral U.S. seemed like they were going to enter the war, the German ambassador should approach the Mexican government with a proposal for military alliance.
The telegram was intercepted and decoded by British cryptographers. Its contents was released to the American public on April 1, 1917 which caused great outrage. The United States then declared war on Germany on April 6.
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