The explosion aboard the USS Maine provided a convenient excuse for the United States to enter into a war with Spain. In what other conflict did the U. S. government similarly instigate a war under dubious pretenses?

I would say into WW1 because of the Zimmerman affair.

Explanation:

United States entered the WW1 in 1917, although for three years they were not officially involved in it. But, then a telegram was intercepted, in which an official letter was sent to Mexico by German authorities.

According to it, Mexico was to declare war on United States, while Germany will support them in the war efforts.

Many historians are doubting the reliability of this document.

explanation:

these are the geographical features of the gupta empire.

1)it inherited the land owned by the mauryan empire.

2)one obvious difference between the two empires is that the gupta empire was smaller that the mauryan.

3)the gupta empire is located in the northern region of the subcontinent underneath the himalayan and hindu kush mountains.

the gupta empire, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries that contributed to hindu culture, in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.

this period was also known as the golden age of india

the monroe doctrine is the best known u.s. policy toward the western hemisphere. buried in a routine annual message delivered to congress by president james monroe in december 1823, the doctrine warns european nations that the united states would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.