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148 JEFF EDWARDS
Horrified by what they saw as a barbaric attack on an unarmed ship, the
American people began to scream for revenge. The United States was
drawn into the war that it had struggled to avoid, shifting the balance of
power to the Allies.
It is, perhaps, a supreme stroke of irony that the torpedo—the very
weapon that had almost brought victory—would sow the seeds of
Germany’s defeat.