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WW1
WW1 was started over Franz Ferdinand being murdered in Serbia and territorial/revenge plots caused it. However America only joined into the war after reading the Zimmerman telegram to get South America to attack America with the promise of getting their land back in 1917. -
Lusitania
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.
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