HW14

Noah Senzel

9/24/08

Period F

HW 14

1.a. Germany was the first to use submarines for direct warfare, other countries used them to protect harbors or not at all.

b. Britain readied certain passenger ships, such as the Lusitania, to become battle cruisers and would pay the captains for the upgrades; they simultaneously loaded some ships with contraband (war supplies), and the Lusitania was designed to hold these.

2. The Germans saw the Lusitania as a battle cruiser, and therefore thought it was ok to sink it. They saw the passengers as people who ignored their printed warning as chose their own fate.

3. The Americans saw the sinking of the Lusitania as a killing of innocents—the Lusitania was a passenger ship, and the Germans had no right to sink it. They saw the giving of the medals to the Germans responsible as showing their inhumane, demonic side.