HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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This was the passenger ship that the German torpedoes and killed 128 American passengers which was one of the causes of America joining WWI
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Zeppelin
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Lusitania
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Jutland
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Gallipoli
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -On May 7, 1915, the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1, 959 men, women, and children on board, 1, 195 perished, including 123 Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 16 January 1878, the Turkish steamer Intibah became the first vessel to be sunk by self-propelled torpedoes, launched from torpedo boats operating from the tender Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin under the command of Stepan Osipovich Makarov during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.
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