re: The World Wars on History

I am almost done with episode one and I am not a big fan. It glosses over the Russian Revolution, makes it appear it happens in 1915-16 instead of March (and again in October) of 1917. There is a lot of historical disagreement about when Hitler shaved his mustache but most historians I have read say he shaved it in 1919, not 1914. It seems History was just going for dramatic effect with that scene anyway.

Also I didn't like how History made it seem the United States went to war solely over the discovery of the Zimmerman note. When that telegram became public, the United States was already all but certain heading into war because the German navy had gone back to unrestricted submarine warfare and were sinking our merchant ships, killing hundreds of Americans in the process. We had warned them in 1915 that if they sank another American ship there would be war. That's why the Germans sent the telegram to Mexico in the first place. They knew that by restarting USW they would bringing America into the war against them. They hoped that Mexico would delay U.S. forces long enough for them to achieve final victory over England and France.