On February 24, when Hall sensed that the Zimmermann telegram would tip the balance in favor of the U. S. joining the Allied forces, the British home secretary presented the telegram to President Wilson. One week later, news of the Zimmermann telegram was splashed across the front page of American newspapers. On April 6, 1917, the Congress of the United States declared war on Germany and its allies. Which inference can be made based on the information in the excerpt? The Americans had already planned to enter the war before being shown the telegram. The Americans were still very reluctant to join the Allied nations in a war against Germany. The Americans were persuaded to join the war against Germany after seeing the telegram. The Americans were not very troubled by the contents of the telegram by the time they saw them.

According to eric shlosser’s introduction to fast food nation what is his book primarily about?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Answer 3 and 5 for brainliest. i don’t have a link for #3 sadly.