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This 5 page paper discusses Barbara Tuchman's book ”The Zimmerman Telegram," a message sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman in 1917 that helped precipitate the American entry into WWI. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the telegram that eventually precipitated Americas entry in World War I. In January 1917, WWI was more than half over (though of course the combatants didnt know that), but America
had yet to enter the conflict. President Woodrow Wilson had won re-election on the slogan, "He kept us out of the war," and he was committed to remaining out of
it. Americans in general viewed the war as a strictly European affair that they should not be involved in. In Britain, however, the situation was desperate and they wanted
nothing more than for America to join in the war effort. The war was a dismal stalemate, with Russian, French, German and English troops fighting for a few yards of
ground which they then lost again the next day. At the Somme, 60,000 British troops became casualties "in a single mad day, over a million Allied and enemy losses in
the five-month battle" (Tuchman, 1966, p. 4). The slaughter was endless and would finally result in the destruction of an entire generation of young men from all the combatant countries:
millions of young French, British, German and Russian men were just gone. The only thing that could end the war was the entry of the United States on the
Allied side. America had the men, material and production capacity to turn out the equipment needed to overpower the Germans and end the conflict, but Wilson stubbornly kept clear of
the whole thing (Tuchman, 1966). The American people as well were strongly against remaining uninvolved in what they saw as an entirely European affair. (This attitude cropped up again in
the run-up to WWII, when it took Pearl Harbor to bring the U.S. into the struggle). It seemed that the war was destined to drag on forever, until the morning
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