American Decades
The Zimmermann Telegram
Telegram from Arthur Zimmermann to Heinrich J.F. von Eckhardt
Telegram
By: Arthur Zimmermann
Date: January 16, 1917
Source: Zimmermann, Arthur. "Telegram to Heinrich J.F. von Eckhardt, 16 January 1917." Available online at http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/arch_results_detail.jsp?&pg;... ; U.S. National Archives and Records Administration home page: http://www.archives.gov (accessed January 20, 2003).
About the Author: Arthur Zimmermann (1864–1940) entered the German Foreign Office in 1902. Previously, he had been assigned to the consulate in China. Upon his recall to Germany, he landed in San Francisco. Crossing the continent by train to New York, Zimmermann was fascinated with America and considered himself an...
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1910's Government and Politics Primary Sources
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- "Henry Cabot Lodge: Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine"
- "Votes for Women"
- The Yosemite
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- "Woodrow Wilson: The Tampico Affair"
- Family Limitation
- The Zimmermann Telegram
- Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War Message
- "Opposition to Wilson's War Message"
- "Over the Top": By an American Soldier Who Went
- "Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks Out Against the League of Nations, Washington, D.C., August 12, 1919"
- "Statement by Emma Goldman at the Federal Hearing in Re Deportation"
- Volstead Act of 1919
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
