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The influence of technology on diplomacy can be
illustrated by leaked and misunderstood telegrams,
which shaped the history in unexpected ways. For
example, the 1917 Zimmermann telegram (sent by
German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann to the
German Mission in Mexico and intercepted by the
British) instructed the German representative to start
negotiating Mexico's entrance into World War I as a
German ally by offering Mexico control of the US states
of New Mexico, Utah and California after the war. The
Zimmermann telegram was leaked at a time when the
American public were still neutral and not ready to join
World War I. It prompted the United States to join the
Allied forces. The most illustrative case study of the
influence of the telegraph on diplomacy was the 1914
July crisis that led to the beginning of the World War I.
Telegraph messages were being sent between St.
Petersburg, Berlin, Belgrade, Vienna, Paris and other
countries involved in the conflict. However, there was
little awareness of how to use the telegraph properly.
The Russian czar sent a conciliatory note to Germany,
but the German kaiser had already sent a note that was
not conciliatory at all, thus creating communication
confusion and mistrust that contributed toward
escalation and ultimately war. A new technology
coupled with human failure led to an unfortunate
outcome