World war one and the aftermath
1915 German submarine sinks the Lusitania;
On May 7, 1915 a British passenger
ship Lusitania entered the war zone and no sooner that it did that a German
submarine sunk the Lusitania killing nearly 1,200 passengers including 128
Americans. The Americans saw this as a terrorist attack on its own civilians
and wanted actions taken on the Germans. President Wilson tried to defuse the
situation by issuing a warning to Germany telling them to stop attacking ships.
Then in March of 1916 a German U- boat torpedoed the French passenger ship
Sussex injuring several of the Americans on board.
President Wilson then issued one
last warning promising that if the Germans did not stop blowing ships up then
America would enter into the war. Germany decided that they did not want
America in the war so they quickly came up with the Sussex Pledge that kept the
Germans from blowing up other ships and then kept America out of the war for
just a little longer.
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