Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that in January 1917, German Minister Arthur Zimmermann sent a coded telegram to ...

TIL that in January 1917, German Minister Arthur Zimmermann sent a coded telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico to try and persuade Mexico to attack the US. The British intercepted and decoded it, then forwarded to the US. That telegram was a big factor in the US entering World War I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_telegram
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