Floyd Gibbons' account of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania helped put pressure on the United States to enter World War I. The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was torpedoed by a German U-boat in May 1915, resulting in the deaths of many passengers, including several Americans. Gibbons' vivid reporting on the tragedy brought significant attention to the incident and contributed to the growing anti-German sentiment in the United States.
Floyd Gibbons' account of the sinking of what ship helped put pressure on the United States to enter World War I?
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