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==Aftermath==

==Aftermath==

The sinking of the Lusitania was extensively used in British [[propaganda]] to promote recruitment for the armed forces in the war against Germany, and to promote anti-German sentiment in the still-neutral United States.  128 Americans lost their lives, and there was clamor to get America in the war.  President [[Woodrow Wilson]], despite this, made every effort to steer the country towards a neutral course ("He kept us out of the war!" would be a campaign slogan in 1916).  However, in the ensuing two years since ''Lusitania'' went down, it would take Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare combined with the shocking revelation of the [[Zimmermann Telegram]] that would ensure U.S. entry into the war.

The sinking of ''Lusitania'' was extensively used in British [[propaganda]] to promote recruitment for the armed forces in the war against Germany, and to promote anti-German sentiment in the still-neutral United States.  128 Americans lost their lives, and there was clamor to get America in the war.  President [[Woodrow Wilson]], despite this, made every effort to steer the country towards a neutral course ("He kept us out of the war!" would be a campaign slogan in 1916).  However, in the ensuing two years since ''Lusitania'' went down, it would take Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare combined with the shocking revelation of the [[Zimmermann Telegram]] that would ensure U.S. entry into the war.

One of the leading theories as to the secondary explosion was coal dust; ''Lusitania'' burned coal for fuel, and by the late stage of the voyage near Ireland her bunkers were nearly empty, the detonation of the torpedo stirring up this dust and simultaneously igniting it.  This theory has found credence in several grain elevator explosions in the American midwest during the 1970s-1980s.  But listed on the ship's manifest, and reported in the London ''Evening Post'' of May 8, 1915, which cannot be overlooked were:

One of the leading theories as to the secondary explosion was coal dust; ''Lusitania'' burned coal for fuel, and by the late stage of the voyage near Ireland her bunkers were nearly empty, the detonation of the torpedo stirring up this dust and simultaneously igniting it.  This theory has found credence in several grain elevator explosions in the American midwest during the 1970s-1980s.  But listed on the ship's manifest, and reported in the London ''Evening Post'' of May 8, 1915, which cannot be overlooked were: