• ganksy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I feel completely ignorant that I was not aware U-boats were around during WW1

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      10 months ago

      Unrestricted submarine warfare was actually one of the causes that drew the US into WW1!

      Continent-wide war over the future of civilization? We sleep

      You sink our money-making ships? REAL SHIT

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      10 months ago

      One of the key events that gave the United States the politically-charged push into the war was the sinking of the Lusitania, and it was done by a German u-boat.

      Here’s another weird one you didn’t expect: Germans used zeppelins to bomb London.