Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exactly a century ago this Friday, on the morning of Feb. 24, 1917, the office of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing received ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On this day in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson learned of a shocking piece of paper that made America’s entry into World War I ...

The restored home of the Mexican Telegraph Company’s Galveston transmission shack. The historic Zimmerman Telegram, which played some role in galvanizing support for U.S. involvement in World War I, ...

On March 1, 1917, an explosive story hit the front pages of major U.S. newspapers, about a German telegram that had fallen into the hands of the American government. By then, the United States was ...

The historical marker in Galveston commemorating the city's involvement in relaying the historic Zimmerman Telegram, which played some role in galvanizing support for U.S. involvement in World War I.

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — In a secret telegram a century ago, Germany tried to get Mexico to join its side during World War I by offering it territory in the United States. Britain intercepted, deciphered ...

Key point: In the end, the Zimmermann Telegram hastened Germany’s downfall. It was one hundred years ago when Mexico almost invaded the United States. In January 1917, German foreign secretary Arthur ...

Fort Huachuca, Arizona - "…we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico ...

Arthur Herman contends that before entering the war in 1917 Woodrow Wilson had been scrupulously neutral. That is not even remotely true. In “Decoding the Zimmermann Telegram, 100 Years Later” (op-ed, ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Exactly a century ago this Friday, on the morning of Feb. 24, 1917, the office of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing ...