5 Shipwrecks in the most disastrous history
Two years before the aggressive naval policy of Germany would draw the United States into war against them, Kaiser Wilhelm announces a milestone in the development of this policy, proclaiming the North Sea a war zone, where all ships merchants, including those of neutral countries, were likely to be sunk without warning.
By expanding the boundaries of the naval war, Germany took revenge against the Allies for the British blockade of Germany in the North Sea, an important part of the war strategy Britain to strangle his enemy economically by the end of the war according to official British leaders blockade of hunger called German would take 770,000 lives.
The German Navy, despite his attempts to build in the years before the war, was much less than the force of the peerless Royal Navy after the resounding defeats of his battle cruisers, such as that experienced in the islands Falkland in December 1914, Germany began to turn to its dangerous submarine U-boat as the best hope for sea Hermann Bauer, head of the German department submarine, had suggested in October 1914 U-boats could be used to attack merchant ships and raid their cargoes and scare imports in Britain, including those of neutral countries at the beginning of the next month, Britain said the North sea a military area, putting warning neutrals that areas would be undermined and that all ships must first put in British ports where they would be looking for possible supplies related louse r Germany, stripped of them, and escorted by the British minefields With this intensification of the blockade, the idea of Bauer won more support in Germany as the onl y appropriate response to the actions of Great Britain.
Although the German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg and the German Foreign Ministry worried angering neutral countries, pressure from heads of the Navy and anger in the German press on the British blockade convinced them to go through the statement on February 4, 1915, Kaiser Wilhelm announced Germany's intention to run any and all ships sailing under the flags of Great Britain, Russia and France found in British waters Kaiser said the neutral country that neither crew nor the passengers were safe while traveling in the war zone designated around the British Isles If neutral ships chose in British waters after February 18, when the policy came into effect, they would do their own risk.
The government of the United States immediately and strongly protested against the appointment of the war zone and warned Germany that it would take all measures that may need to take to protect American lives and property subsequently, an open rupture between German politicians who wanted to provoke the wrath of America and its navy, which was determined to use his deadly U-boats for the greatest possible benefit.
After a German U-boat sank the British passenger ship Lusitania May 7, 1915, killing more than 1,000 people, including 128 Americans, the pressure of the U S has prompted the German government to considerably limit the operation of submarines ; U-boat war has been completely suspended as submarine warfare Unrestricted September was resumed on 1 February 1917 requesting the U S two days later, to break off diplomatic relations with Germany.
Patricia Hearst, had been beaten unconscious by the two kidnappers Soon, the girl of 19 years in publishing billionaire William Randolph Hearst, is removed from its Berkeley, California, apartment Stephen Weed, the fiance Hearst, a ransom demand came from the Symbionese Liberation army SLA, a radical activist group led by Donald DeFreeze DeFreeze had formed.
Early in the morning of February 4 1976, a 7-level earthquake magnitude 5 lots of Guatemala, killing 23,000 people and leaving a million others homeless It was April 3 pm when the first big jolt, centered six miles below earth's surface 120 miles northwest of Guatemala City, hit the earthquake.
George Washington, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was unanimously elected the first president of the United States by 69 electors who voted John Adams of Massachusetts, who received 34 votes, was elected Vice President voters, who represented 10.
In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana get together to establish the Confederate States of early 1858 the ongoing conflict between the North and South on the question of slavery led the direction South to discuss a unified separation of the United States.
With Yasir Arafat as leader, the Palestine Liberation Organization was founded February 4, 1969 by 1974, when he addressed the United Nations, Arafat has made significant progress towards the creation of a new respectability to the PLO's campaign for a Palestinian homeland but gains an articulated legitimacy cooling terrorism and.
Germany declares war zone around the British Isles February 4, 1915, Germany, area, UK.