AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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The U.S.S. Maine explodes
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Yellow Journalism
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The Lusitania is sunk
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The de Lome Letter
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Detailed explanation-1: -The disaster set off a chain of events that led to the U.S. entering World War I. A German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned steamship Lusitania, killing 1, 195 people including 128 Americans, on May 7, 1915. The disaster set off a chain of events that led to the U.S. entering World War I.
Detailed explanation-2: -RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915. The luxury passenger liner was crossing the Atlantic from New York to Liverpool when the German submarine U-20 fired without warning.
Detailed explanation-3: -On that day, the British luxury liner, the RMS Lusitania, set sail from New York for Liverpool; six days later, twelve miles off the southern coast of Ireland, she was torpedoed by a German submarine and sank.
Detailed explanation-4: -Knowing all this today, we can confirm that the Lusitania was a war crime, all right, but it was a British/German co-crime, not just a German crime.