Germans+Sink+the+Lusitania

**__Germans sink Lusitania __** The issue reached a crisis when the British passenger ship //Lusitania// entered the war zone. A German sub sunk the ship, killing nearly 1,200 passengers and 128 Americans. Wilson tried to defuse the crisis; he refused to threaten Germany with war saying that germans sink lusirania the u United States were “too proud to fight.” Instead, he sent several official protests to Germany insisting that it stop endangering the lives of noncombatants in the war zone. Germany didn’t want to strengthen the Allies by drawing the United States into the war.