Warning America that any boat caught at sea carrying weapons and war supplies will be sunk. America did not care much about it because it was not their war until one day when a German submarine sunk the Lusitania without warning. The sunken ship was carrying over four million rounds of ammunition for allied troops and killed at least 1,198 and 128 Americans. Germany in fear of the Americans joining the war sent Mexico a telegram proposing an alliance granting them the territories they had lost in 1848, this telegram was called the Zimmerman telegram, but Mexico stayed loyal to America. This telegram was intercepted by the British and was the telegram was the last push America needed to join the
Warning America that any boat caught at sea carrying weapons and war supplies will be sunk. America did not care much about it because it was not their war until one day when a German submarine sunk the Lusitania without warning. The sunken ship was carrying over four million rounds of ammunition for allied troops and killed at least 1,198 and 128 Americans. Germany in fear of the Americans joining the war sent Mexico a telegram proposing an alliance granting them the territories they had lost in 1848, this telegram was called the Zimmerman telegram, but Mexico stayed loyal to America. This telegram was intercepted by the British and was the telegram was the last push America needed to join the