Special Relationships, Part 1/3: The Zimmermann Telegram | Historical
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The Great Blesley Park
By 19 17, both sides had sustained casualties numbering in the millions. Eager to bring the conflict to a close, the german navy was planning to resume the sinking of merchant and civilian vessels. Berlin would do everything in its power to make sure that didn't happen. In the foreign office of the german empire, an audacious plot was hatched. It's a little known plan that, had it gone ahead, would have changed the urse of history. The states of texas, new mexico, california, arizona and nevada could play host to the first bloodshed on american soil since the civil war.
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