1- Read the Zimmermann telegram which Woodrow Wilson used to declare war on Germany.
2- Read Benjamin Freedman’s talk on why the USA entered the war.

(Briefly address the following points:)
A)Wilson had run on the slogan of having kept us out of the war.
was his declaration of war justified or unavoidable or was it used as a pretext?

B)How neutral had the USA been in fact before it declared war on Germany?

C)How believable is Freedman’s take on what happened?