* During that same trip, Trump asked his staff, “Who were the good guys in this war?” — that is, World War I —
The insufferable prick is an history illiterate who talks like a child. Let a Dem president voice such a question and oh the shit that would be lost by those on the right.
Trump: 'The Zimmerman Letter? Sure I'm familiar with that. It was a letter sent from a local Ford dealer to my dad about a car lease or something.
Lusitania? Sure, I knew her. Fabulous, fabulous stripper in my NJ casino. Very nice lady and an amazing woman, amazing woman.'
The sinking of the Lusitania heightened tensions between the U.S. and Germany and, coupled with the Zimmermann Telegram, helped sway American opinion in favor of joining the war.
The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. If the United States entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The telegram was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence.
Any doubts as to the authenticity of the telegram were removed by Zimmermann himself. At a press conference on 3 March 1917, he told an American journalist, "I cannot deny it. It is true." Then, on 29 March 1917, Zimmermann gave a speech in the Reichstag in which he admitted the telegram was genuine.[25] Zimmermann hoped that Americans would understand that the idea was that Germany would only fund Mexico's war with the United States in the prior event of American entry into World War I.
On 1 February 1917, Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare against all ships in the Atlantic bearing the American flag, both passenger and merchant ships. Two ships were sunk in February, and most American shipping companies held their ships in port. Besides the highly provocative war proposal to Mexico, the telegram also mentioned "ruthless employment of our submarines". Public opinion demanded action. Wilson had previously refused to assign US Navy crews and guns to the merchant ships. However, once the Zimmermann note was public, Wilson called for arming the merchant ships, but anti-war elements in the United States Senate blocked his proposal.[26]
On 6 April 1917, Congress voted to declare war on Germany; Wilson had asked Congress for "a war to end all wars" that would "make the world safe for democracy".[27]
Woodrow Wilson considered another military invasion of Veracruz and Tampico in 1917–1918,[28][29] so as to pacify the Tehuantepec Isthmus and Tampico oil fields and ensure their continued production during the civil war,[29][30] but this time the relatively new Mexican President Venustiano Carranza threatened to destroy the oil fields in the event that the Marines landed there.[31][32]
Even if by some chance Mexico had the military means to win a conflict against the United States and reclaim the territories in question, Mexico would have severe difficulty conquering and pacifying a large English-speaking population that was both used to self-government and better supplied with arms than most other civilian populations.
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