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The ABC Powers sought to avoid a war between the U.S. and this country by convening the Niagara Falls peace conference. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson signed the Pact of the Embassy with this country, one of whose ports was occupied following the Tampico affair. (15[1])This country’s president (*) Venustiano Carranza resisted John Pershing’s punitive expedition, and rejected the Zimmerman Telegram, which proposed an alliance between Germany and this country during World War I. Veracruz is located in, for 10 points, what home country of Pancho Villa and southern neighbor of the U.S.? ■END■

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