History and Political Science

For Essay #4 do the following:

1) Read the Zimmermann telegram which Woodrow Wilson used to declare war on Germany.

2) Read Benjamin Freedman’s talk on why the USA entered the  the war

Briefly address the following points:

Wilson had run on the slogan of having kept us out of the war.

Was his declaration of war justified or unavoidable or was it used as apretext?

How neutral had the USA been in fact before it declared war on Germany?

How believable is Freedman’s take on what happened?