[midwest_hiker]

We entered WW1 with the USS Main getting hit with a mine.

[Army Air Corps]

The USS Maine incident led to the Spanish-American War. The sinking of the Lusitania led to our entry into WWI.

[pfflier]

We entered WW1 with the USS Main getting hit with a mine.

WTF?? You need to go back and read your history books.

The event was used to trigger the Spanish American war.

[Mouton]

That was the Spanish American war 1898.

[PIF]

We entered WW1 with the USS Main getting hit with a mine.
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The Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898

WWI began 16 years later.

[Jacquerie]

Yep, just a couple decades before the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor.

[Grampa Dave]

On February 15, 1898, an explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship U.S.S.

Maine in the Havana, Cuba harbor, killing 266 of the 354 crew members.