The Great War (WWI)
The Great War (World War I, 1914-1918) is considered one of the most destructive wars aside from World War II (1933-1945) and involved over 25 countries. It was started by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo , Austria-Hungary by a Serbian man named Gavrilo Princip whose was one of the seven members of Mlada Bosnia (Young Bosnia),a terrorist group from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia . Due to prior “arguments” with Serbia , this gave Austria-Hungary the excuse to go to war.
July 28, 1914, Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia , as a first attack Austria-Hungary invaded Bosnia-Herzegovina in reaction to this Russia got involved o back-up its ally Serbia and as a result …show more content…
German Kapitänleutnant Walter Schweiger was captain of the U-20 that sunk the Lusitania by shooting a torpedo just below the water and straight into the hull of the massive liner, which was loaded with munitions and weapons dedicated to the British war effort. Since the British were actually using higher-class civilians as a cover-up to secretly transport weapons the Germans were …show more content…
Her engines could put out 68,000 horsepower and in 1907, she set a world record for the fastest speed of 25.88 knots. She reduced the passage time between New York and Liverpool to fewer than five days. She was also a large ship, with a waterline length of 760 feet, and an 88 foot beam maximum. By destroying the Lusitania, the Germans got rid of one valuable asset to their enemy. First of all, she was wicked fast and was very large, it could carry On her last voyage, the Lusitania left the City port bound for Liverpool May first, 1915. With only 1924 people on board the British government had a limited passenger list for fear of a submarine attack. If the government was worried about attack why did they allow people like Alfred Vanderbilt, one of the richest men in the world at the time, and Carl Frohman, a famous playwright, to board passage? Some people thought was a ploy to have Americans enter the war. By May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was nearing the Irish coast. She was only about ten miles from the shoreline, one of the areas the German government had warned ship passengers to avoid. The patchy fog caused Captain Tuner to slow down, but since Tuner was steering the ship so far away from the coastline, that made her an easy target for lurking
July 28, 1914, Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia , as a first attack Austria-Hungary invaded Bosnia-Herzegovina in reaction to this Russia got involved o back-up its ally Serbia and as a result …show more content…
German Kapitänleutnant Walter Schweiger was captain of the U-20 that sunk the Lusitania by shooting a torpedo just below the water and straight into the hull of the massive liner, which was loaded with munitions and weapons dedicated to the British war effort. Since the British were actually using higher-class civilians as a cover-up to secretly transport weapons the Germans were …show more content…
Her engines could put out 68,000 horsepower and in 1907, she set a world record for the fastest speed of 25.88 knots. She reduced the passage time between New York and Liverpool to fewer than five days. She was also a large ship, with a waterline length of 760 feet, and an 88 foot beam maximum. By destroying the Lusitania, the Germans got rid of one valuable asset to their enemy. First of all, she was wicked fast and was very large, it could carry On her last voyage, the Lusitania left the City port bound for Liverpool May first, 1915. With only 1924 people on board the British government had a limited passenger list for fear of a submarine attack. If the government was worried about attack why did they allow people like Alfred Vanderbilt, one of the richest men in the world at the time, and Carl Frohman, a famous playwright, to board passage? Some people thought was a ploy to have Americans enter the war. By May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was nearing the Irish coast. She was only about ten miles from the shoreline, one of the areas the German government had warned ship passengers to avoid. The patchy fog caused Captain Tuner to slow down, but since Tuner was steering the ship so far away from the coastline, that made her an easy target for lurking