1. “The United States claimed the Lusitania carried an innocent cargo, and therefore thetorpedoing was a monstrous German atrocity. Actually, the Lusitania was heavily armed: itcarried 1,248 cases of 3inch shells, 4,927 boxes of cartridges (1,000 rounds in each box), and2,000 more cases of smallarms ammunition.. . . The British and American governments liedabout the cargo.<span>. . .”
2. </span>Zinn reveals the amounts of private foreign investments the United States held as well asexplaining the way that the nation would benefit from Britain’s victory over Germany in the<span>war.
3. </span>Zinn’s argument is seemingly convincing. Given the evidence of America’s private foreignaffairs and America’s relations with Britain, it makes sense of Wilson’s true motives to<span>participate in the war</span>
if most members in congress from his states are republican, if his states has a republican governor, and his state cast electoral votes in the last election for the republican candidate.
