Analysis Of Dead Wake: The Crossing Of The Lusitania By Erik Larson

In Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Erik Larson tells a story of events surrounding the sinking of Lusitania. He argues that the ship would not have sunken if time management was different and Room 40 gave detailed directions and warnings to the ship. He claims that the ship sank for many reasons which led to significant consequences such as United States joining Britain for World War I.

On the 7 May 1915 at 14:30, then 240 metre long and 27 meter wide ship

My favorite history experience has to do with the movie called “The Titanic.” Not just the movie but the actual event happening. I wish I could have been there and survived the experience to be able to tell the amazing, life changing story. The movie and the actual sinking of the ship affected me in many ways. I think it also affected the way we make our boats today. When I seen this movie and realized not only how much the world has changed since the titanic happened, but the way we think and how we build things differently.

The source is valuable for understanding how the sinking of the Lusitania caused violence within Liverpool. The source suggests that one reason why the riots occurred was due to public outrage. O’Mara states that that the ‘names of the drowned’ were ‘appalling’. This is supported by the fact that Liverpool was ‘Lusitania’s home port’. This would have caused locals to feel personally attacked by the sinking of the Lusitania. To add, the majority of those who were lost in the sinking were from the Merseyside. Over 150 of those who died were from the city of Liverpool, this would have added to the rage of the riots as the tight-knit community would have known people affected by the sinking, O’Mara goes on to talk of the ‘cries of the women whose

​“The war to end all wars” was what people called it. Others called it “The Great War”. Many people died in this war. And there was really no right or wrong in this war; meaning that I don’t think there really was a side that was wrong or right, and I’m going to explain why further in this essay. I think both sides were wrong in things, but in the end, Germany was the one that suffered the most because they were being forced to pay billions dollars in the war debts, and let the French control a rich mine for well over 15 years. But before that Germany and the Britain’s were at war with each other. And Germany sent out a warning to everyone saying that every ship crossing the war zone line (which was the

The ship was shot down by Germany and was carrying Americans on board. 128 American passengers were killed. In 1916 the U.S. and Germany entered into an agreement called the Sussex Pledge. The pledge meant that Germany agreed to give us fair warning before sending an attack on ships in that area so we would know to get americans out of there to safety. This I think was a good idea because it let us know to move out of the way, and helped us save lives. In 1917 Germany decided to ignore the Sussex Pledge and continued to shoot down ships without giving us warning. This killed many more American citizens. I think that instead of that leading us into a war we should have just told all American citizens to stay out of that area until the war was

The Germans sunk the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, killing over a thousand innocent men, women, and children and injuring hundreds. The ship was not suppose to be carrying any weapons or ammunition, however, a

The United States should have entered the war when the Lusitania was sunk by German U-boats because of its immoral tactics and because of the death of the one hundred twenty-eight Americans. In the early 1900s, the Allied navy still followed old naval conduct by warning ships before it was attacked. Germany, on the other hand, practiced unrestricted submarine warfare. Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as passenger and merchant ships without warning. Sadly, the Lusitania fell victim to an unrestricted submarine warfare attack. The sinking of the Lusitania was the first of many that fell victim, but the United States could have prevented it. Germany’s unrestricted attacks would have been more easily justified if it attacked military vessels rather than passenger ships. Moreover,

even know about the sinking of the ship because it is not even mentioned in history books.

propaganda. Then the sinking of the Lusitania along with the Zimmerman telegram. With all of

With the arming of British merchants ships as an effort to protect its passengers and crew came a potential loophole for the Germans, essentially allowing them unrestricted submarine warfare. Though international law did not directly involve submarines, it was previously agreed that attacks on merchant ships must follow prize rules. Germany agreed that they would avoid sinking neutral ships, however, in addition to the unlikeliness of a submarine surfacing to notify a ship of an attack, as such would endanger its own safety, the arming of a merchant ship made it unclear as to whether it was simply a neutral vessel for commerce, or if it was a warship. Germany could easily claim they mistook an armed merchant ship for a warship, and attacked it as a precaution. On February 10, 1915, the United States announced in a note that Germany would be held absolutely, unconditionally responsible for any losses of American lives or property. Yet, on March 15, 1915, the Falaba was sunk by a German submarine, who claimed it was shipping contraband, with the loss of over 100 lives, one of which was an American named Leon Thrasher. The United States, despite the fact that Thrasher entered the designated war zone, condemned the Germans for the immoral act and lack of warning, knowing that if they did not, such a disaster would recur, and that their stance on the Thrasher case would set the standard for America’s reactions to future catastrophes during the war. On May 7, 1915, the British ship Lusitania was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland. Though simply a passenger ship, the Lusitania was transporting small arms ammunition, and because of this was, according to the Germans, unneutral. The sinking of the Lusitania was of such importance to the

The vessel fired when the German submarine, U-652, had mistaken the American warship to be responsible for a depth charge from a British bomber’s alert, and aimed torpedoes at the USS Greer. Through this event, this created immense tension between the United States and Germany, and was the very beginning of World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt had very much to say about this situation, when he “secretly” called for the United States Navy to be ready to fight if any country decided to engage in war actions with America. Why was this decision so secret? In a conference on September 11, 1941, Roosevelt told American people the “blunt truth,” that the Germans had all intentions to sink the American ship. From this attack came Roosevelt’s “shoot on sight” poll, addressed in the Gallop Poll number 7, released September 26, 1941. This poll had 56 percent of the American people agree with him. In my opinion, I would agree, as well. I believe in going down with a fight for property and the divine rights of ownership. However, Roosevelt’s idea for this was not so much influenced greatly upon the American people’s public opinion. Because of the “shoot on sight” poll, Americans knew that this would cause a heavy war with Germany, causing a heaping 96 percent of Americans to oppose wartime with Germany during the Gallop Poll number 9. However,

That is a clear indication that no ship, be it passenger or warship nor weapon bearing or not, flying the colors of any enemy known to the German forces were to enter those waters. With this knowledge one would think that sending a passenger ship into dangerous waters would require an escort. The Lusitania was not escorted. The captain of the ship Captain Turner was also advised on several occasions to reroute to a safer location or docking. These requests were ignored. It was also confirmed that the Lusitania, a passenger ship, indeed was carrying weapons and ammunitions. Along with that it is believed the Lusitania suffered from a second explosion, either the ammunition stored down below or a possible second torpedo launched from the U boat. Knowingly travelling into enemy waters, unguarded, with weapons, the Lusitania was inevitably sunk in order to achieve an excuse to join actively into the war for profit.

128 Americans that were on board were killed. However, the ‘Lusitania’ was not an American ship and Wilson accepted the Germans change in policy that their U-boats would now adopt ‘cruiser’ tactics and surface to attack ships with guns fitted onto their decks. While the German chancellor managed to avoid a major diplomatic issue this time, the German military was adamant that the ‘cruiser’ tactic was not going to be used as it was to dangerous for the lightly armored U-boats of the time.

It was a regular day out in the seas, when all the sudden the Lusitania was attacked and sunken!. In 1915,there was a war between states around the world.1,198 died and 761 survived.So many dead lying in the ocean.And only a few people trying to live.