Events of WWI

At 2:10 in the afternoon on May 7, German U-boats fired a torpedo at the Lusitania. Lifeboats Crashed into the sinking ship and crushed a crowded deck full of passengers. Within eighteen minutes, the ship had sunk. 1,119 of the 1924 passengers were claimed dead, 114 of those being American. Because of the sinking Americans were enraged, two years later American declared war.

In January of 1917 British cryptographers deciphered a note from German Foreign Minister, Arthur Zimmerman. According to the note, it stated that they(as in Germany) would help Mexico gain territory from the U.S. if they would join Germany's alliance. The note was then published to increase the support of bringing the U.S. into WWI. The note had such an impact, Americans joined war.

*Connection Across Time*

Both the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Note had an impact on history as we know it. Without these two U.S. events, the United States would have never been brought into WWI. Where would the allied powers be then? Would we have won the war? Without those events, history today wouldn't exist. My connection across time is simple. Both the sinking of the lusitania and the zimmerman note formed what we have today and that is peace with Germany.