Which inference can a reader make based on the information in the passage? The message Zimmermann wanted to send to von Bernstorff was very important. Count von Bernstorff was expecting the message. U-boats were designed to transport messages securely. Zimmermann wanted to reach out to the Mexican government for support.

On January, 1917, Zimmermann sent an encripted telegram to the German ambassador in Washington, Johann Von Bernstorff, so that, in turn, this will send to the German ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt. In this telegram Germany offers to the Mexican president Venustiano Carranza a military alliance, in order to Germany would provide to Mexico all the supplies for a war with the US, to recover the territories that this county took from Mexico through 1848 Guadalupe-Hidalgo, that puts end to the war in both countries.

The message Zimmermann wanted to send to von Bernstorff was very important