And then the allies—obviously not the Germans who lost the war, or the Austrians who lost the war, and some of the Eastern European countries who lost the war—don’t commemorate it. The Zimmermann telegram denoted the ambassador from Germany to Mexico had sent a telegram saying that they were going to work out an agreement that Mexico would attack the United States and deflect our attention from Europe and in exchange for that war that they would wage against us, they would be given back some of the territories they lost in the Mexican War: Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. We lost about 116,000—60,000 of those were lost to disease, but we did bring in the manpower that stopped the German spring invasion of 1918, turn the tide allowed Britain and France to win the war, and allowed us to become a world power with this new army.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-11-11 22:00:00
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