Lusitania sunk off Ireland
May 7, 1915
A German U-boat torpedoed the Cunard liner eleven miles off Kinsale. The ship rolled over and sank in eighteen minutes, taking nearly twelve hundred civilians, including one hundred twenty-eight Americans. Public opinion in the United States turned against Germany. The long road toward American entry into the war had begun.
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