The renaissance introduced humanism and started to shift people's mindsets from striving to achieve an ideal life after death to enjoying and making the best of their current life.
The Zimmerman Note was a note sent from Germany to Mexico asking Mexico to align itself with German interests. If the US entered the war and if Mexico opposed the US, the reward would be Arizona California and one other state -- perhaps Texas. It was a major contributor to the declaration of war on Germany by America.
The sinking of the Lusitania was another major event. When the Lusitania was sunk, 2000 people were affected.
Submarine warfare really aggravated the US. Many merchant ships were sunk.
Answer: B
Francisco Franco was a general and the leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and the head of state until his death in 1975.
