The Zimmermann telegram stirred up anti-German sentiment in the United States because it revealed German plans to
a. destroy the Panama Canal
b. deploy submarines along the Atlantic coast of the United States
c. return to Mexico her provinces lost to the United States in exchange for a Mexican declaration of war on the United States
d. recruit German and Irish Americans for use as spies and saboteurs in the United States.
e. station German troops in Mexico.
ANS: C
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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