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Mexico's Before and After of World War 2

By lg730

  • Mexico's First Step to Recovery

    Mexico's First Step to Recovery
    Sometime in November, 1941, the United States and Mexico signed a general agreement that settled their disagreements.

  • Mexico's Aggression Rises

    Mexico's Aggression Rises
    Mexico became hostile in World War 2 after Germany two of Mexico's tankers. A Mexican-North American joint defense committee planned cooperative functioning to be practiced in case the Japanese attacked Mexico’s west coast.

  • Mexico Breaks Ties with the Axis Powers

    Mexico Breaks Ties with the Axis Powers
    Latin American foreign ministers held a conference in Rio de Janeiro. Mexican emissaries persuaded many other countries to break ties with the Axis Powers.

  • War in Mexico

    War in Mexico
    Mexico declared war on the Axis Powers in May of 1942 after German submarines attacked Mexican merchant ships and oil tankers.

  • Continuation of War in Mexico

    Continuation of War in Mexico
    Mexico pilots trained in the United States and were prepared to fight the Pacific by 1945. The 201st Air Fighter Squadron was attached to the 58th fighter group of the United States Air Force and sent to the Philippines.

  • Similar Conflicts After World War 2

    Some 4.6 million labor contracts had been signed with many braceros returning on multiple contracts to work agriculture jobs in more than 25 states.