Political Cartoon for WWI

This Political Cartoon is a depiction of what the Germans were doing during WWI. The Germans used submarines during the war and this was their main advantage. They were better known as U-Boats. During the war the Germans passed a policy known as the Unrestricted Submarine Warfare. This policy stated that the Germans would sink any ship that was in range of their U-Boats that did not belong to them. It did not matter if the ship was full of innocent people. On May 7, 1915 this policy was really noticed when a German U-Boat sank the Lusitania and killed 1198 people. there were some Americans on board and this is what made us take more notice to the war. This cartoon shows how people are looking for answers as to how they can get ride of this U-Boat problem and how the war is now knocking on out front door and just asking us to get involved.