The Zimmerman Telegram (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

Education, History

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:04.0	In 1917, British Intelligence intercepted a diplomatic telegram between Germany and Mexico.
0:14.0	The contents of the telegram contained information that had the potential to change the
0:18.0	course of the First World War.
0:20.3	Not only wasn't an important turning point in World War I,
0:22.8	but it was also one of the first successful signal intelligence operations in world history.
0:27.5	Learn more about the Zimmerman telegram on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. To give some background the United States studiously tried to stay out of World War I.
0:52.0	In fact it pretty much had been a standing policy. studiously tried to stay out of World War I.
0:52.8	In fact, it pretty much had been a standing policy
0:55.2	to avoid European wars since the country was founded.
0:58.4	George Washington said in his farewell address, quote,
1:01.2	it is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with
1:04.6	any portion of the foreign world, unquote. Thomas Jefferson reiterated this in
1:09.4	his first inaugural address when he said, quote, peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,
1:14.9	entangling alliances with none, unquote.
1:18.3	In the 1916 presidential election, the main issue was that of war. The huge war going on in Europe and the civil war
1:25.1	which was raging south of the border in Mexico. The official US policy was
1:29.5	neutrality and the biggest campaign slogan for Woodrow Wilson was
1:33.0	he kept us out of the war, which would turn out to be really ironic in just a few months.
1:38.0	Wilson comfortably defeated Republican Charles Evans Hughes,
1:42.0	who, fun fact, is the only sitting Supreme Court Justice
1:46.0	ever to have won a party's nomination for president.
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