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The Lusitania was sunk in 1915 and the US did not enter the war until almost two years after the sinking. The sinking of the Lusitania and the American reaction to that sinking caused the Germans to temporarily halt their policy of unlimited submarine warfare.
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The answer is b). The communist east Germany was held by USSR and the democratic West Germany was with the Western Powers
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