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#ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM CODE#

What changed in America? A single Western Union telegram, composed and sent in code from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the government of Mexico was intercepted and deciphered by British cryptographers.

But just one year later America would enter the most brutal and bloody conflict the world had ever yet known.

In 1916 Woodrow Wilson was elected to a second term as president primarily on his strong reputation as a peacemaker.