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[[Image:NYT01May1915.jpg|200px|right|thumb|German advertisement in ''New York Times'', May 1, 1915, warns passengers not to take the Lusitania.]]
 
[[Image:NYT01May1915.jpg|200px|right|thumb|German advertisement in ''New York Times'', May 1, 1915, warns passengers not to take the Lusitania.]]
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'''RMS ''Lusitania''''' was a British passenger liner sunk by a German uboat in  [[World War I]] with heavy loss of life. The atrocity outraged Americans and ruined Germany's reputation aqs an honorable nation. The episode helped push the U.S. into war against Germany in 1917.
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'''RMS ''Lusitania''''' was a British passenger liner sunk by a German uboat in  [[World War I]] with heavy loss of life. The terrorist attack on unarmed civilians was a major atrocity that outraged Americans and ruined Germany's reputation as an honorable nation. The episode helped push the U.S. into war against Germany in 1917.
    
==History==
 
==History==
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