The Tragedy of 1915, and the Power of Propaganda
It's May 7th, 1915.
World War I has raged across Europe for nearly a year. Only six days after hostilities had opened in 1914, President Wilson declared that the United States would remain "impartial in thought as well as in action." This impartiality was severely tested in when Germany declared that all ships, neutral or not, that entered the waters around Britain would be sunk, and tested further when the Imperial German Navy raider SMS Prinz Eitel Friedrich boarded the ca