motor neuron, one of various efferent nerve cells that transmit nerve impulses from the brain or from the spinal cord to muscular or glandular tissue. According to location, some kinds of motor neurons are the peripheral motor neurons and the upper motor neurons. Also called motoneuron.
The Zimmerman telegram probably had a peripheral effect on breaking the isolationist sentiment in the US in WWI. Relations with Mexico were strained already (Veracruz was occupied) but once Huerta was gone, the Mexican neutrality in the World Wa...
Revelation of the contents outraged American public opinion and helped generate support for the United States declaration of war on Germany in April of the same year. The message came in the form of a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on 11 January 1917. The message was sent to the German ambassador to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt.