Street Report

I saw the whole thing sink. It was as if everything was moving in slow motion. I wish it had sped up since all i heard was the creaking of the ship going further and further down into the depths of the ocean, and the screams of every passenger while I was safe in my boat too far away to help. Arms flailing through the air and children asking where their parents were, was the hardest thing to turn away from. I watched the last part of the boat sink in knowing I had just seen over 1,000 people die while I left them there to suffer. I turned away and refused to look back, only listening as the sounds of peoples cries grew fainter and fainter...the Lusitania was no more.

The cartoon depicts an american ship, the Lusitania, about to be attacked by a german sub. The cartoonist is emphasizing the randomness of the attack on the ship, and the ruthlessness of the germans. At the same time, it makes them sound illiterate by not being able to understand the U.S. wasn't their enemy. I think the cartoon is accurate, because the attack truely was random. The U.S. wasn't involved in the war at all, yet the Germans still attacked. However, the comic is generous to the germans, saying they don't understand who their enemy was, while in reality they knew exactly who they were fighting.

Sinking of the Lusitania

There were many questions as to why the Lusitania sank, and why it only took one torpedo to sink it. One reason that it is believed it only took one torpdeo to sink it, was that people think there was small arms artillery on board, giving it just enough that it was something else to explode. The only explaination as to why the Lusitania only took 18 minutes to sink is that the torpdeo had an abnormally large explosion causing it to sink so fast. The sinking of the Lusitania resulted in 1153 passengers and crew members dying by drowning, and 128 of those people were Americans. This caused an uprising in America and Great Britain.

Mapping and Timeline

WWI - Timeline

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- 1914- June 28: Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
- The Great War breaks out
- August 23: Germany invades France
- The British Blockade
- 1915
- The "Lusi

tania" was sunk by a German U-boat
- April: Italy joins the war
- War in the trenches
- London attacked from the air by German Zeppelins

- 1916- Battle of Verdun- Battle of Jutland
- Battle of the Somme
- 1917
- Germany's unrestricted u-boat warfare
- The USA joins the war
- Russia leavs the War

- 1918- Germany's last offensive
- The Battle of

the Argonne Forest
- The First World War ends
- Treaty of Versailles

The blockade was a navel blockade conducted by the Allied powers during world war1. Prussia took over most of Germany and Lippe took the least. There was only about 3 free cities around Germany. The government ordered the Royal Navy to immediately cut the flow of raw materials and foodstuff to Germany.

This map shows Haig’s plan – the army would break through the enemy lines, then the infantry and cavalry would sweep on past Bapaume.

Primary Source

This is a picture of a Turkish fort that was destroyed  by gunfire from the British battleship Queen Elizabeth. The Queen Elizabeth lead the first line of British battleships on March 18th 1915 in a battle. It also sunk one of turkey's torpedo boats and was then withdrawn from the battle.