as they refused to support the american expedition to europe and promised to allow german businesses to continue to operate in the country this mexican-german relationship would be part of what convinced the germans to offer an alliance in the zimmerman telegram which loomed large in the american decision to enter the war throughout this period the united states continued to be involved in mexico panchavia actually raided across the border into new mexico which then led to an intervention into mexico by general pershing to try to capture pancho via although the expedition was unsuccessful the event that started it all was fairly minor no lives were lost and mexico even apologized but the event also provided convenient pretext to more aggressively press wilson's already antiwarta policy even while the u.s stood steadfastly neutral in the brewing european war wilson was more than willing to engage with his southern neighbor over what he saw as principle as well as the desire to enforce his vision of peaceful coexistence on the world an ambition that would become even more evident in the coming war his seriousness in the endeavor is well illustrated by the taxes perhaps the most powerful worship in the world and a symbol of american military resolve ordered there by the extraordinary measure for going a shakedown cruise one of america's greatest weapons primed for combat the event eventually blew over but at the time it wasn't completely obvious that it would events in europe eventually overshadowed it and drew in the united states partly because of german overtures towards mexico but mexico partly because of the tampico affair stayed out of the war today the uss texas is the last remaining of the world war one era dreadnoughts she was the first american battleship to be made a permanent museum and the first to be designated a u.s national historic landmark but her long years at the dock at the san jacinto battlegrounds historic site have taken a toll on her the battleship texas foundation has embarked on a campaign to restore the ship and if you're interested in helping to preserve this piece of american history the foundation encourages you to shout come on texas and donate at URL_TOKEN i hope you enjoyed this episode of the history guide short snippets of forgotten history and if you did enjoy feed the algorithm by making a comment or clicking that like button if you have suggestions for future episodes please send those to our suggestions email box check out our webpage at URL_TOKEN and of course we're on facebook instagram and twitter you can book a special message from the history guy on cameo and check out our merchandise URL_TOKEN and if you'd like more episodes of forgotten history all you need to do is subscribe
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