A-80 ★ GLOSSARY
instructing the minister to offer to recover
Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona for Mex-
ico if it would fight the United States to
divert attention from Germany in the
event that the United States joined the war.
zoot suit riots 1943 riots in which sail-
ors on leave attacked Mexican- American
youths.Yorktown, Battle of Last battle of the
Revolutionary War; General Lord Charles
Cornwallis along with over 7,000 British
troops surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia,
on October 17, 1781.
Zimmerman Telegram Telegram from
the German foreign secretary to the Ger-
man minister in Mexico, February 1917,