If a lightning bolt fused a wire to a metal plate then the wire was electrified. remember that a lightning bolt is <span>an electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm. Now if a conductor as a metal plate helped to fuse a wire, the only effect on a wire is to be electrified. </span>
Explanation: Germany sunk US passenger ships (Lusitania being one of them) and tried to get Mexico to attack the US when the US decided to fully join the war.
