Spain closes its airspace to U.S. aircraft involved in military action against Iran.
BBC News →Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran, Madrid's Defence Minister Margarita Robles has said. "We will not authorise the use of Morón and Rota [military bases] for any acts related to the war in Iran."
Spain Protests Submarine Attack on Ships
MADRID, Spain, Sept. 26.—The Spanish government sent note to Berlin protesting energetically against the torpedoing of Spanish steamers by German submarines.
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9 January 1917 German Crown Council meeting
The 9 January 1917 Crown Council meeting, presided over by Kaiser (German Emperor) Wilhelm II, decided on the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by the Imperial German Navy during the First World War. he feared it would alienate neutral powers, including the United States.
Wikipedia →Zimmermann telegram
The Zimmermann telegram (or Zimmermann note or Zimmermann cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office on January 17, 1917, that proposed a military contract between the German Empire and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. With Germany's aid, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Wikipedia →American entry into World War I
The United States entered into World War I on 6 April 1917, more than two and a half years after the war began in Austria-Hungary. Over time, especially after reports of German atrocities in Belgium in 1914 and after the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in a torpedo attack by a submarine of the Imperial German Navy off the southern coast of Ireland in May 1915, Americans inc...
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