Kammala wannan jumla: Jamus ta daɗe tana neman ta jawo yaƙi tsakanin Mexico da Amurka, wanda zai ɗaure sojojin Amurka kuma ya rage fitar da makaman Amurka zuwa Allies. Jamusawa sun taimaka wajen samar da makamai a Mexico, kamar yadda abin da ya faru a Ypiranga a 1914 ya nuna. Jami'in leken asirin sojan ruwa na Jamus Franz von Rintelen ya yi kokarin tayar da yaki tsakanin Mexico da Amurka a 1915, yana ba Victoriano Huerta dala miliyan 12 don wannan dalili. Bajamushe saboteur Lothar Witzke, wanda ke da alhakin fashewar bindigogi a watan Maris na 1917 a Mare Island Naval Shipyard a San Francisco Bay Area, kuma mai yiwuwa ne ke da alhakin fashewar Black Tom a watan Yulin 1916 a New Jersey, yana da tushe a Mexico City. Rashin nasarar sojojin Amurka
don kama Pancho Villa a 1916 da kuma motsi na Shugaba Carranza a cikin goyon bayan Jamus ya ƙarfafa Jamus don aika da Zimmermann bayanin kula.