February 1, 1917
The Sussex Pledge was made by Germany after the US threatened to cancel diplomatic relations with Germany after Germany sunk a French channel ferry, Sussex, during WWI. The pledge stated that German submarines would not target passenger ships or merchant ships unless the presence of weapons had been established.
Sussex Pledge
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It was a promise made in 1916 between Germany and the United States, before the US entered the war, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpeoded without warning. However it was rescinded in 1917
by signing the sussex pledge
The Sussex Pledge of 1916 was a promise from the Germans. It was intended to stop civilian deaths during the First World War.
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February 1, 1917
The Sussex Pledge was made by Germany after the US threatened to cancel diplomatic relations with Germany after Germany sunk a French channel ferry, Sussex, during WWI. The pledge stated that German submarines would not target passenger ships or merchant ships unless the presence of weapons had been established.
The Sussex pledge was wrote to mean that Germans could not invade foreign ships with that countrys citizens aboard. Hitler did exactly that because the ship held Jews. So to kill them he sank their ship.
The Sussex pledge was an agreement between the U.S and Germany. Germany agreed not to sink merchant vessels without warning or without assuring the passengers safety.
There was no formal pledge not to sink civilian ships, however the concept of neutrality was accepted and agreed by all the western powers. The illusion of neutrality was shattered when a German submarines sank the unarmed passenger liner Lusitania.
by avoiding sinking of US vessels by German submarines............... but, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Germany declared was on the U.S.