AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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American companies lost a lot of money when British ships were sunk.
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When the Lusitania was sunk, 128 Americans were killed.
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The American people did not like having goods made in Germany.
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The Germans did not want America to trade with enemy countries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did Germany’s policy of unrestricted submarine warfare anger the American people? American companies lost a lot of money when British ships were sunk. When the Lusitania was sunk, 128 Americans were killed. The American people did not like having goods made in Germany.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a result, Germany declared the waters surrounding the British Isles a war zone and stopped following international naval “prize laws, ” which warned ships of a submarine’s presence. This break from naval protocol angered and troubled the United States and the European Allies.
Detailed explanation-3: -After failing to seize control of the sea from the British at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare on 1 February 1917. This, coupled with the Zimmermann Telegram, brought the United States into the war on 6 April.
Detailed explanation-4: -Unrestricted submarine warfare was first introduced in World War I in early 1915, when Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from neutral countries, would be attacked by the German navy.