The death of Americans that were passengers aboard the British ship Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine.
Because when the Lusitania was sunk with 200 Americans on board, President Wilson finally declared war on Germany. The Zimmerman note was also a reason the USA. went to war.
Americans were strongly isolationist in the first half of the 20th century and considered World War 1 to be a "European War" in "far-off lands". They did not wish to get entangled in that debacle.
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The Jews
The ship carried 120 Americans and its name was the Lusitania.
The Irish-Americans possibly did not like Great Britain
The US did enter World War 1, though not till 1917.
Persia did NOT fight in World War 1.
The death of Americans that were passengers aboard the British ship Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine.
Americans
One of the main reasons the US entered World War I on the side of the allies was because the Germans had sunk the Lusitania, a passenger ship containing many Americans.
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The USA wanted to stay neutral and not go into the War at all. But the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. 1 day after that, the Americans declared war on Japan.
The US entered WW1 when a German U boat sunk the Lusitania, killing 1198 people, including 128 Americans. World war 1 ended November 1918 when the Armistice (ceasefire) was signed.