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...
On this day in 1917, the text of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America.