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Use the next slide to answer the following questions: On the left is an ad for the Lusitania. What is the article on the right saying? 2. Who wrote the article on the right?

Use the following website to answer questions on the Lusitania: http://www.answers.com/topic/lusitania-ship 3. What was the Lusitania? 4. Why was the ship easy for the Germans to sink? 5. Why did the Germans sink the ship? 6. How many Americans were killed.

Use the following website to answer questions on the Sussex Pledge: http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/worldwar1/p/prsussexpledge.htm 7. What did the Sussex Pledge promise? 8. Why was Germany forced to issue it? 9. How did the breaking of this pledge help bring America into WWI?

Use the next slide to answer the following questions about the Zimmerman Note. 10. Read the letter and summarize what it is saying in a few sentences. 11. Who is the letter from? 12. In a few sentences, summarize why this letter may have compelled America to enter WWI.