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stories circulated of german attacks on neutral Belgium, rumours spread that innocent civilians being killed. they also still remebered the memory of the 1915 sinking of the lusitania. president Wilson secretly supported the triple Entente and felt that if the germans and their allies were not stopped in Europe and that they would ultimately threaten the united states.

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It was primarily due to the sinking of the Luistania, (sp?) a cruise ship carrying many Americans. A German U-Boat torpedoed it.

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