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In the spring of 1915 the British liner Lusitania was sunk. How many people were aboard, and how many of them were Americans?
ANearly 1,200 aboard, 260 of them Americans
BNearly 260 aboard, 128 of them Americans
CNearly 2,100 aboard, 128 of them Americans
DNearly 1,200 aboard, 128 of them Americans
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Nearly 1,200 aboard, 128 of them Americans
1. 1. German military leaders had announced in February 1915 that they would destroy all merchantmen around the British Isles.
2. 2. The Lusitania went down in the spring of that year with nearly 1,200 people aboard.
3. 3. Of those, 128 were Americans.
4. 4. The figure 260 belongs to the loss of the warship Maine at Havana in an earlier war, not to this sinking.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section CONFLICT ABROAD, SOCIAL CHANGE AT HOME_
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