The book “The Zimmerman Telegram” had many key points, including the importance of keeping “room 40”, the confidential room used for decoding the german telegram code, a secret.
Britain needed this room to keep watching germany and their political and military moves. Another point would be the importance of the US and its final decision on either joining the allies or staying neutral. Before the telegram President Woodrow Wilson was very adamant about staying out of the war, and even ran his re-election campaign around it, but the document changed his mind. The last major point would be the purpose of the telegram, to have Mexico declare war on the US to reclaim the territory lost during the Mexican-American war, and to convince Japan to …show more content…
This meant that Germany would continue to use the compromised code in the future, allowing for even more crucial knowledge of all things from diplomatic moves, to the movements of their army to be intercepted. The british even fabricated a story behind their acquisition of the Zimmerman telegram, to make sure that they would not lose their advantage, by saying that they had bribed an employee in the Mexican embassy for a copy of the war changing …show more content…
Many people in the US were of direct german descent, and german was the second most commonly spoken language, with some newspapers even being printed in german. Germany believed that if war came, those of german descent would fight against the US from the inside, as a kind of internal resistance, but instead they cast away their german pride and heritage for the pride of the US and soon after many of the newspapers who had previously printed in german shut down. The rapid change after the telegram was revealed was unprecedented by the germans, as was how quickly those of german descent cast away their heritage, which only further weakened the german
Britain needed this room to keep watching germany and their political and military moves. Another point would be the importance of the US and its final decision on either joining the allies or staying neutral. Before the telegram President Woodrow Wilson was very adamant about staying out of the war, and even ran his re-election campaign around it, but the document changed his mind. The last major point would be the purpose of the telegram, to have Mexico declare war on the US to reclaim the territory lost during the Mexican-American war, and to convince Japan to …show more content…
This meant that Germany would continue to use the compromised code in the future, allowing for even more crucial knowledge of all things from diplomatic moves, to the movements of their army to be intercepted. The british even fabricated a story behind their acquisition of the Zimmerman telegram, to make sure that they would not lose their advantage, by saying that they had bribed an employee in the Mexican embassy for a copy of the war changing …show more content…
Many people in the US were of direct german descent, and german was the second most commonly spoken language, with some newspapers even being printed in german. Germany believed that if war came, those of german descent would fight against the US from the inside, as a kind of internal resistance, but instead they cast away their german pride and heritage for the pride of the US and soon after many of the newspapers who had previously printed in german shut down. The rapid change after the telegram was revealed was unprecedented by the germans, as was how quickly those of german descent cast away their heritage, which only further weakened the german