[Part 4] America/Mexico - The Zimmerman Note 1c/3
anonymous
December 31 2009, 19:26:32 UTC
Notes: During WW1, the British were severely limiting German communication. The United States, not yet in the war and not wanting to join, tried to keep good terms with Germany by allowing diplomats use of government telegram cables, through which the coded Zimmerman Note was sent (January 19th, 1917). The British had been watching US cables, copied the telegram right away, and had it decoded by mid-February. It was reported to then President Woodrow Wilson on February 23rd before becoming public news on March 1st.
The US declared war on Germany on April 6th, 1917. Mexico was seven years into the ten-year-long Mexican Revolution, and waited until April 14th before declining Germany's proposed alliance.
As for "shipwrecking into Japan," in 1609, a ship visiting the Philippines was heading home to New Spain when it shipwrecked near Onjuka, Japan. The town saved most of the passengers, took care of the survivors till they were back on their feet, then gave them a ship to continue on their way. It's a really cool story, if barely known, and a better rundown of the events can be found here: http://www.pref.chiba.lg.jp/syozoku/b_kokusai_e/friendship/mexico.html. After isolationism, the Japan-Mexico Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation was not the first treaty Japan made with a western country, but was considered the first one to be made on equal terms.
The US declared war on Germany on April 6th, 1917. Mexico was seven years into the ten-year-long Mexican Revolution, and waited until April 14th before declining Germany's proposed alliance.
As for "shipwrecking into Japan," in 1609, a ship visiting the Philippines was heading home to New Spain when it shipwrecked near Onjuka, Japan. The town saved most of the passengers, took care of the survivors till they were back on their feet, then gave them a ship to continue on their way. It's a really cool story, if barely known, and a better rundown of the events can be found here: http://www.pref.chiba.lg.jp/syozoku/b_kokusai_e/friendship/mexico.html. After isolationism, the Japan-Mexico Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation was not the first treaty Japan made with a western country, but was considered the first one to be made on equal terms.
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