Document a: the crowning achievement of the german navy; may 3, 1916
background: this cartoon ran in american newspapers in may of 1916. later that year wilson was running for re-election with the campaign slogan "he kept us out of war." he was re-elected but by april 1917 he was asking congress to declare war on germany: nearly one year after this cartoon first appeared.

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