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captain recorded the moment in his log. Torpedo hits starboard side close behind the bridge, an unusually great detonation follows with a very strong explosive cloud.

The 20 foot long missile armed with 350 pounds of TNT had struck its target.

The Kunard's Lusitania, a British-owned luxury ship.

The resulting tragedy, the Lusitania went down in just 18 minutes, would claim 1,198 lives, including 128

Americans.

In the terror and the death, the chaos and the fire,

the United States had just come closer to World War I and to everything that came after.

I'm John Meacham and this is Hope Through History, episode four, death at sea.

Wilson sort of stayed back, tried not to allow it to violate our neutrality.

One step at a time these things happened and it was getting harder and

harder for Wilson to do that. And it was this constant need to test your

manhood. The greatest way to be manly is to go to war.

The First World War is one of the most important and convulsive events in history.

But since the cataclysm of World War II, what was known as the Great War of 1914 to 1918, has held an ever

diminishing place in the popular imagination.

Yet without an understanding of the conflict that consumed Europe for four years in the teens,

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