Submarine warfare

So what they're hoping to do is find a way to end the war fairly soon, ideally with them still in the lead, because at this point they probably were winning.

winning the war had certainly had more territory so the thing of the way to way to get the war won and won and ended um is to use the americans use the americans uh as sort of as a way to bring the parties together and then get lost they don't want the americans actually in the peace conference they want them just to be sort of a a force to bring the both sides together If the Americans can't do this, the Germans are pretty much openly saying, we are going to resume the unrestricted submarine warfare that we had backed down from because of the Sussex incident.

And the Kaiser is even cheeky enough to even send a letter across the ocean in English, because he spoke English fluently, that he wants Wilson to see, basically stating this fairly bald term saying, we're gonna be forced to reconsider our submarine policy if peace does not come soon.

So Wilson, after he gets elected, knows that there's a good chance the Germans are going to resume this submarine warfare.

And that that's going to bring America into the war.

So he really feels a sense of urgency that there's got to be some sort of effort now, finally, to end the war.

There's a new foreign minister in Berlin.

His name is Zimmerman.