Exactly as it says in the title.
Bonus: What if Mexico accepted it and invaded the US?
Bonus: What if Mexico accepted it and invaded the US?
Exactly as it says in the title.
Bonus: What if Mexico accepted it and invaded the US?
What the Zimmerman Telegraph showed was that Germany clearly understood nothing about Mexico, its position in relation to the United States, or North American geopolitics. Honestly, the Zimmerman Telegraph is like every bad alternate history story you've ever read. There was no understanding of the real world or how it worked. It is the Robert Conroy of diplomatic messages.
Exactly as it says in the title.
Bonus: What if Mexico accepted it and invaded the US?
Exactly as it says in the title.
Completely agreed with all of this. Indeed, please see my post above.The same amount of time as in OTL. Once the Germans had decided on unrestricted submarine warfare (including killing Americans on American ships) it was inevitable that the US would enter the war. (At least under President Wilson or for that matter President Hughes--if there were a President Bryan or a President La Follette, it might be different.) The Zimmerman Telegram may have made the vote for war in Congress even more overwhelming than it otherwise would have been, but that is all.
Completely agreed with all of this. Indeed, please see my post above.
Also, out of curiosity--what about President Clark? What exactly would he have done in such a situation?
How long would that be, in your opinion?But he would oppose a declaration of war as long as possible.
How long would that be, in your opinion?
So, in other words, with Clark as President, the U.S. sees no entry into WWI at all?That would depend on whether Germany was actually stupid enough to carry out its threats to treat captured American merchantmen as pirates https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/okb7h0NAT2Y/JPrypyAg6MgJ which I doubt (for one thing, the US could make similar threats against captured U-Boat crews...)