The sinking of the LUSITANIA intensified the already high anti-German resentment among the Allied forces and threatened to pull the USA into war. The drowning of hundreds of women and children on the LUSITANIA was soon exploited by propaganda to encourage men to enlist. Source: Spear, Fred, Artist, and Willard Dickerman Straight. Enlist / Fred Spear. [New York: Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation, or 1916] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.