"Secret WWI Telegram Holds Lessons for Today" Topic
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| Tango01 | 16 Jan 2017 9:57 p.m. PST |
"In a secret telegram a century ago, Germany tried to get Mexico to join its side during World War I by offering it territory in the United States. Britain intercepted, deciphered and shared the "Zimmermann Telegram." Historians, seeing parallels to today, say there's a lot to be learned. They gathered at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, last week and discussed how a foreign government hacked a secret communication and used the information to sway American public opinion and policy. When it was released, there was a heated debate over whether it was real or what we now call "fake news."…"
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| Wackmole9 | 17 Jan 2017 9:54 a.m. PST |
It was just Wilson's Excuse for getting into the war after he was elected on keep us out of war. Mexico couldn't invade the US at the time and the German couldn't of supplied them. |
| emckinney | 17 Jan 2017 11:43 a.m. PST |
Yep. He didn't want to admit to the German bombing and biological warfare campaign inside the (neutral) United States, which was quite successful. |
| Wackmole9 | 17 Jan 2017 8:49 p.m. PST |
We were not neutral. We were selling war materials and Financing the allies but not the central powers |
| Tango01 | 18 Jan 2017 12:11 p.m. PST |
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| gamershs | 18 Jan 2017 4:48 p.m. PST |
The Germans were actually DUMB. When the Zimmerman telegram was exposed the Germans need only point out that the source of the letter was the British. The German ambassador could have said that he "intercepted" a letter (while writing it in front of the reporters) that showed the British were planning to invade the United States from Canada. By treating it as a real proposal he played into the British hand. |
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