WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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by using U-boats to sink U.S. supply ships
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by capturing ports in Western Europe
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by capturing supply ships in the Atlantic
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by using long-range bombers to attack U.S. factories
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Detailed explanation-1: -Germany built new and larger U-boats to punch holes in the British blockade, which was threatening to starve Germany out of the war. In 1914, Germany had just 20 U-boats. By 1917, it had 140 and the U-boats had destroyed about 30 percent of the world’s merchant ships.
Detailed explanation-2: -Germany-itself under pressure from a British sea blockade-began using its “unterseeboote, ” better known as U-boats or submarines, to sink these merchant ships in 1915.
Detailed explanation-3: -German submarines, or U-Boats, threatened Canadian merchant ships carrying troops and supplies to Britain, whose war effort depended on this support.
Detailed explanation-4: -The U.S. Readies for War The sinking of Lusitania didn’t directly cause the United States to enter the war. It did, however, fuel virulent anti-German sentiment in Britain and the United States and hinder diplomatic relations between Germany and the United States.
Detailed explanation-5: -The German navy used the Unterseeboot, or U-boat, to sink 5, 000 ships measuring more than 13 million gross register tons during the war. As the war geared up, the Germans and the British believed the big battles would be fought with huge ships like the HMS Dreadnought and its sisters.