File:RMS Luisitania.jpg

Summary

RMS Lusitania. The caption reads, "The sinking of this great liner by a German submarine, with the loss of more than a thousand lives, caused a thrill of horror throughout all neutral nations and crystallized public opinion in the United States into a fierce resentment of German barbarism which indirectly led to the entry into the World War.

Source

Francis A. March, "History of the World War", 1919, Chicago, pg 258.

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• 1915