Lusitania+facts

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=B.= The sinking of the Lusitania- May 7th, 1915


 * Britain used it's powerful navy to blockade Germany. Germany resorted to submarine warfare with their "untersee shiffs" or "U-boats".
 * In response to the blockade, the Germans had warned about using "unrestricted submarine warfare" against ships coming to Great Britain. See a warning and videos here: Warning!


 * On May 7th, she was off the coast of Ireland when she was attacked by a German submarine, the "U-20" and sunk with one torpedo.
 * She sank in about 18 minutes and while going under, a secondary explosion was heard down in the hull leading to speculation.....
 * Over 2000 on board, around 1200 died including 128 Americans.
 * The sinking was used by the Allies as propaganda to inflame world opinion about the Germans.
 * The Germans produced a Lusitania medalfor the sailors in the U-20 for sinking this famous ship, angering people even more.
 * Conspiricies abound as to whether the ship was not just innocently carrying civilians, but maybe had weaponry hidden in its cargo, which could account for the large "secondary" explosion.

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