We learned about the Zimmerman telegram in high school at my East Coast public school (11th grade Modern World History and 12th grade AP European History). I t

We learned about the Zimmerman telegram in high school at my East Coast public school (11th grade Modern World History and 12th grade AP European History). I think a lot of the WW1 curriculum was focused on Europe and the events leading up to the war, the diplomatic entanglements, the senseless humanitarian disasters, and the impacts it had on the world with the Lost Generation.