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ALL ADVISED TO LEAVE GERMANY - American Newspaper Correspondents Get Word From Ambassador Gerard
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 1. A dispatch received from Berlin by the Berlinske Tidende says James W. Gerard, the retiring American Ambassador to Germany, has advised the American newspaper correspondents to leave Germany as soon as possible and to proceed the safest way to the United States—by way of Switzerland or Spain. The Ambassador, adds the dispatch, will stay for some days in Berlin settling up urgent business matters. On his return home the Ambassador's staff and a few American newspaper men will accompany him. Mr. Gerard has had long conferences with the Spanish Ambassador and the envoys of neutral countries who called on him. The Berlinske Tidende correspondent says some Americans already have left Berlin. A number of American business men, he adds, have expressed the desire to remain temporarily in Copenhagen after settling their business affairs in Germany.
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Zimmermann telegram
Zimmermann Telegram – U.S. Response
News of the telegram further inflamed tensions between the United States and Mexico. Since the public had been told falsely that the telegram had been stolen in a decoded form in Mexico, the message [enraged the American public]. German State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Arthur Zimmermann publicly admitted on March 3, 1917, that the telegram was authentic.
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President Wilson's speech to Congress
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on the German Empire in a speech that reads in part: 'I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately... On the 3rd of February last, I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German government that on and after the 1st day of February it was [resuming unrestricted submarine warfare].'
Wikipedia →United States declaration of war on Germany (1917)
The United States declared war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917. President Woodrow Wilson asked a special joint session of the United States Congress for a declaration of war on April 2, 1917, which passed in the Senate on the same day and then in the House of Representatives four days later on April 6. Wilson signed it into law the same day, making the United States officially involved in the First World War.
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