"The contents of ""The Zimmermann Telegram"" of 16 January 1917 revealed a German plan to offer Mexico what territory in return for a military alliance against the USA?"
Reconquista (Mexico) plan" was created to push the US into supporting Venustiano Carranza, a major leader of the Mexican revolution (which ultimately occurred). In 1917, according to the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in exchange for joining Germany as an ally against the United States during World War I, Germany was ready to assist Mexico to "reconquer" its lost territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. For Chicanos in the 1960s, the term, although not invoked, was understood as taking back "Aztlán", by spray painting as many Mexican images as they could on any wall or sign they could find. In the late 1990s
Zimmermann Telegram Zimmermann Telegram 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. In the event that 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. Revelation of the contents enraged Americans, especially after German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admitted the telegram was genuine on March 3, and helped generate support for the United States declaration of war on Germany in