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  Zimmermann Telegram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Zimmermann Telegram (The Zimmermann Note) was a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 19, 1917, to the German ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt, at the height of World War I.
The telegram was delivered by Admiral Hall to the British Foreign Minister, Arthur James Balfour, who in turn contacted the U.S. ambassador in Britain, Walter Page, and delivered the telegram to him on February 23.
In an unexpected move, Zimmermann confirmed the authenticity of the telegram on March 3, and again in a speech on March 29, 1917.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zimmerman_telegram   (1519 words)

  
 Zimmerman Telegram — A historical gem - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
This is the context of the Zimmerman Telegram and the main actors in the struggle.
Was he to release the telegram and risk the code breaking system which had been painfully developed over two-and-a half years of precious work or withhold the telegram which meant throwing away the greatest triumphal possession of the code that the Zimmerman message could bring.
It was probably the disclosure of the Zimmerman telegram which finally pushed Wilson, according to England's outspoken Lord Chancellor Lord Birkenhead who said, "The United Sates were in fact kicked into the war against the strong almost frenzied efforts of President Wilson".
www.jamaicaobserver.com /lifestyle/html/20050625T200000-0500_83064_OBS_ZIMMERMAN_TELEGRAM___A_HISTORICAL_GEM.asp   (1341 words)

  
 NARA - Educators and Students - The Zimmermann Telegram
The American press published news of the telegram on March 1.
The coded telegram is from Decimal File 862.20212/82A (1910-1929), and the decoded telegram below is from Decimal File 862.20212/69 (1910-1929), General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59.
Zimmermann Telegram as Received by the German Ambassador to Mexico, 01/19/1917
www.archives.gov /education/lessons/zimmermann   (326 words)

  
 First World War.com - Primary Documents - Zimmermann Telegram, 19 January 1917
In January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.
Zimmermann himself dispelled initial suspicions regarding the telegram's authenticity by giving a speech in which he confirmed its existence.
It is his opinion that "never before or since has so much turned upon the solution of a secret message." In an effort to protect their intelligence from detection and to capitalize on growing anti-German sentiment in the United States, the British waited until February 24 to present the telegram to Woodrow Wilson.
www.firstworldwar.com /source/zimmermann.htm   (467 words)

  
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The document is believed to be the actual telegram shown to the American ambassador in London in 1917 that proved Germany's hostility to the United States and guaranteed President Woodrow Wilson's entry into the First Word War.
The interception of the Zimmerman Telegram gave Britain the lever it needed to drag America into the war which had fallen into stalemate on the Western Front.
Zimmerman was assuming America would soon declare war on Germany anyway because, as was mentioned in his telegram, the Kaiser's navy was about to revive its policy of "unrestrained submarine warfare".
www.telegraph.co.uk /core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/17/nzimm17.xml&site=5   (670 words)

  
 Zimmerman Telegram
This telegram, written by German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann, is a coded message sent to Mexico, proposing a military alliance against the United States.
On February 24 Britain released the Zimmerman telegram to Wilson, and news of the telegram was published widely in the American press on March 1.
The Zimmerman telegram clearly had helped draw the United States into the war and thus changed the course of history.
www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/article_100.shtml   (465 words)

  
 Leader-Telegram Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Zimmerman, 59, served 3½ years in prison and suffered a stroke that left him with a limp before UW-Madison law students from the Wisconsin Innocence Project helped earn him a new trial.
Zimmerman won his freedom April 29, 2005, when, on the fifth day of what was expected to be a two-week trial, Eau Claire County District Attorney Rich White dismissed the first-degree intentional homicide charge against Zimmerman.
Zimmerman’s mental and physical anguish as his legal team prepares him for trial and jubilation when White dismisses the homicide charge are detailed in a 90-minute documentary set to air on the A&E channel Monday, June 5.
www.leadertelegram.com /story.asp?id=68305   (758 words)

  
 Zimmermann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Zimmerman Telegram: Sent through a supposedly secure channel devoted to peace negotiations (a transatlantic cable belonging to Scandinavia) on January 19th 1917, the 'Zimmerman Telegram' – often called the Zimmerman Note - was a memo sent from the German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman to the German Ambassador to Mexico.
The alliance with Mexico and Japan, as proposed in the Zimmerman Telegram, was intended to create a new Pacific and Central American Front, greatly distracting the US and aiding the German war effort.
The Leak: However, the 'secure' channel wasn't secure at all: British intelligence intercepted the telegram and, recognising the effect it would have on US public opinion, released it to America on February 24th 1917.
www.natick.k12.ma.us /~winston_blackburn/Zimmermann   (565 words)

  
 Note Taken!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
To better understand why the contents of the Zimmerman Telegram had such a strong effect on the United States, a brief summary of early 20th Century relations between the U. S., Japan, and Mexico is necessary.
Zimmermann as well challenged the United States to prove the authenticity of the telegram; the U.S. government was not able to derive conclusive evidence to prove that the telegram was not indeed a forgery.
Recent studies have shown that the telegram was actually conceived and drafted by Latin American specialist of the German Foreign Office von Kemnitz, who, against the opposition of some of his colleagues, persuaded Zimmermann to send die telegram to the German Ambassador at Berlin.
www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1990-1/guichet.htm   (2711 words)

  
 The Balfour Declaration and the Zimmermann Note
The British should have had no difficulty in intercepting the original Berlin-to-Washington telegram, but the Germans must have been confident that they would be unable to decipher it.
And second, they would have provided the British with the gist of the telegram and informed them that they might be able to get an exact copy and help bring America into the war provided Britain agreed to an eventual Jewish homeland in Palestine.
It explains how the British were able to obtain the verbatim text of the Zimmermann Telegram although it was sent in a code that the Germans were confident the British would be unable to crack.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/0897/9708018.html   (2868 words)

  
 Teaching with Documents: The Zimmerman Telegram (background info 1 and 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
If the Zimmerman note was to the German Ambassador, surely he was hoping for the Federalists soldiers to bring some pressure on the border.
There is a school of thought that the Zimmerman Telegram was an artiface concocted by British Intelligence to convince the Wilson Administration to side with Britian.
No, the Zimmerman telegram was real, but it wasn't the deciding factor in entering the war.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1616625/posts   (979 words)

  
 Channel4.com - The First World War
In January 1917, Zimmermann sent a telegram to his ambassador to Mexico, Heinrich J F von Eckhardt, urging him to try and foment hostilities between Mexico and the United States.
The telegram's 1,000 code-groups were deciphered over the course of two weeks and the contents passed on to the American ambassador in London.
On 1 March, details of the telegram were published in the US press, and on 6 April, the United States formally declared war on Germany.
channel4.com /history/microsites/F/firstworldwar/cont_cracking_3.html   (387 words)

  
 Annotated Bibliography
The author of the article included the content of the telegram itself, even citing the source he got it from.
Most of its information was about the telegram, not the influence of the telegram.
It captured most likely all the major events that occurred during the year the telegram was sent including the aftereffects it caused.
freewebs.com /zimmermantelegram/bibliography.htm   (1324 words)

  
 Zimmerman Lehman : About The Authors
Robert (Bob) Zimmerman and Ann Lehman lived through and were influenced heavily by the idealism of the 1960s.
In 1988, Bob founded Zimmerman Lehman, a consulting firm whose motto is "forging futures for nonprofits." The firm specializes in fundraising, organizational development and executive search exclusively on behalf of nonprofits.
He is the author of the newsletter the Zimmerman Telegram and its more modern incarnation, ZimNotes, an e-newsletter on fundraising started in 1997.
www.zimmerman-lehman.com /abouttheauthors.htm   (626 words)

  
 Zimmerman Telegram by Lisa Marx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In January of 1917, Arthur Zimmerman, the German foreign minister, sent a telegram to the Mexican government.
Zimmerman encouraged Mexico to attack the United States with a promise of support and a postwar reward of territory (Mexico).
The Zimmerman Telegram was a direct violation of the Monroe Doctrine.
www.teachingcompany.com /cp4/DAMarx.html   (206 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM: Books: Barbara W. Tuchman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
While the Zimmerman Telegram is one of the most important documents in history, and is perhaps the greatest result of code breaking in history, it is nonetheless frequently overlooked.
It is the story of the Zimmermann Telegram, a message sent by the German Foreign Minister to the Mexican Government in early 1917.
In essence the Telegram was an attempt to make Mexico a German ally in the event of the US entering World War I on the Allied side, with the bait being the possibility of Mexico reclaiming the states of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
www.amazon.com /ZIMMERMAN-TELEGRAM-Barbara-W-Tuchman/dp/0026203200   (2337 words)

  
 O'Reilly General Hospital -- FOOTNOTES: The Demise of O'Reilly Hospital and the Beginning of Evangel College, 1946-1955
Zimmerman reported independently that Lily was developing an endorsement letter.
Memos of telephone conversations, Eslick to Zimmerman, 9 September 1954, Zimmerman to Eslick, 10 September 1954, Exec.
According to Mansure, the decision to release the property to HEW was “In view of your recommendation, and the information given us by Congressman Dewey Short in his letter of December 3….” Mansure to GSA Regional Director, Kansas City, 7 December 1954; for reply to Short, see Synder to Short, 10 December 1954, Exec.
thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org /lochist/oreilly/ftnotes.cfm   (3266 words)

  
 NPR : Western Union Sends Its Last Telegram
The telegram the Wright brothers sent to their father informing him of their successful first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Dec. 17, 1903.
All Things Considered, February 2, 2006 · The era of the telegram, an icon of communication dating back 150 years, came to a quiet end last week.
The fact that one final telegram was sent last Friday is a tribute not to the telegram's endurance, but to the glacial tediousness of extinction itself.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5186113&ft=1&f=1   (313 words)

  
 Roosevelt and Churchill
Audaciously, Zimmerman sent the telegram via Count Bernstorff, his ambassador in Washington, using the American transatlantic cable recently placed at Berlin's disposal by President Wilson to facilitate peace feelers.
They quickly intercepted Zimmerman's message, broke its cipher, and by early February its plaintext was lying on `Blinker' Hall's desk.
How the British naval intelligence chief resolved the dilemma of revealing Zimmerman's plan to the Americans while disguising its source is the stuff of spy fiction and has often been told.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/s/stafford-roosevelt.html   (5150 words)

  
 Pete The Elder: Zimmerman
I finished The Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara Tuchman last weekend.
The most surprising thing about Germany in all of this is that many Germans were not very worried about the US entering the war in spite of our industrial capacity and finances.
Also, even after the Germans knew we had gotten the telegram they continued to use the same methods and codes to transmit other confidential messages because they thought the US and British peoples were to stupid to crack their code.
www.petetheelder.com /archives/2005/08/zimmerman.html   (555 words)

  
 The Zimmerman Telegram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Zimmerman Telegram represents one of the key turning points of the 20th Century.
The note, of German origin, was supposed to entice Mexico to join the German war effort and invade the United States.
The telegram was intercepted by the British and decoded in the famed Room 40.
lancefuhrer.com /zimm_tel.htm   (202 words)

  
 politician   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Zimmerman Telegram was sent from Germany to the President of Mexico prior to U.S. entry into WWI.
The telegram proposed that Mexico join the German side of the war and attempt to defeat the U.S. The United States Government captured a copy of this telegram en route to Mexico and many historians believe that this promoted U.S. entry into the war.
The most advanced means of communication was the TransAtalantic Telegram and that had its faults in breaking down and misreads.
www.ripley.k12.oh.us /curtisr/politician.htm   (292 words)

  
 Linux Views: The Zimmerman Telegram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Zimmerman Telegram: Sent through a supposedly secure channel devoted to peace negotiations (a transatlantic cable belonging to Scandinavia) on January 19th 1917, the 'Zimmerman Telegram' - often called the Zimmerman Note - was a memo sent from the German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman to the German Ambassador to Mexico.
Full text of The Zimmerman Telegram: "On the first of February we intend to begin submarine warfare unrestricted.
In spite of this, it is our intention to endeavor to keep neutral the United States of America.
www.dctlan.com /2005/07/zimmerman-telegram.html   (839 words)

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