Read the excerpt from The Dark Game
On January 16, 1917, in a clear attempt to convince
the Mexican government to help Germany in the war
Arthur
Zimmermann, the German foreign secretary
sent a telegram
to Count von Bernstorff, the German
ambassador in Washington. The foreign secretary
wanted to be certain
that this message reached von
Bernstorff,
so he made arrangements for it to be
carried aboard a U-boat to Sweden and from there to
Washington through diplomatic channels.
Which statement best explains how the evidence from
this excerpt leads to the inference that the message
Zimmermann
sent was important?
O Because Arthur Zimmermann rarely sent telegrams
to
von Bemstorff, the contents of the message had
to be very important
Because the message was so important and
needed to reach von Bemstorff, Zimmermann
wanted the message to be carried across the ocean
in a U-boat
O The telegram's destination, Washington, DC.
suggests
that the contents of the telegram were
important to the Germans and the British
O The route the telegram was to take, first to Sweden
and then to Washington, DC, supports the idea that
the contents
of the message were important