Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Was Mexicos help necessary for the allies to win ww2?

No, Mexico as a country didn't "play a role" in WWII.
Was Mexicos help necessary for the allies to win ww2?
Sort of - - - - Mexican farm workers spilled into California and worked the fields a vital task especially since the Japanese farmers had been packed out to 'Internment Camps' and many Americans went off to fight the war ---





http://www.farmworkers.org/usneedbp.html


"""For the size of this war production, the United States utilized all of its available resources. Men and women of all ages worked day and night in factories and the healthiest and strongest young people were sent to the front lines.


In this context of conflict of war, in which the destiny of humanity was at stake, is when the Mexican laborers made their appearance. On August 4, 1942 the governments of the United States and Mexico signed a treaty for the recruitment and employment of Mexican citizens in order to alleviate the shortages of manual labor in the agricultural fields and to help maintain the American railways.


The predominant elements of the prevalent situation of 1942 which culminated with the signing of the Bracero Treaty were reported by Ernesto Galarza, the Mexican consulate official assigned to Washington D.C., in the following manner:


"Constant demand of agricultural workers anticipating the production for the war; the opinion expressed by the bosses that local and national agricultural manual labor would be reduced by the recruitments in the military and in other industries; the traditional opinion established in the south of Mexico is a natural reserve of agricultural manual labor and railroad maintenance; Mexico's desire to cooperate in the American's war effort by providing manual labor; the increasingly difficult circumstances of the Mexican working class in the cities and rural communities in regards to the scarcity of nourishment, increasing price rates and other economic overturnings; and Mexican workers' hope of earning better wages in the United States than in Mexico..."


The Bracero Treaty officially ended on May 30, 1963 but the agricultural workers continued coming into the United States until 1964. Soon after, the farmworkers who had dedicated their best efforts during hard times for the United States, were now being thrown out of the country.""





AND THEN THERE IS THIS~!!


http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-m...


"""Nearly a century after a bitter defeat by the United States, Mexico sent a military force to fight against the Axis powers alongside U.S. military forces in World War II. It was the first time that Mexico sent combat personnel abroad and the first time both nations battled a common threat. This unique unit was the Mexican air force, Fuerza Aerea Mexicana (FAM). Its pilots provided air support in the liberation of the Philippines and flew long-range sorties over Formosa, earning praise from Allied theater commander General Douglas MacArthur and decorations from the U.S., Mexican and Philippine governments.---------------On May 13, 1942, a Mexican oil tanker was torpedoed by a U-boat, killing 13 crewmen. A protest filed by the Mexican government was answered with the sinking of a second tanker. When Germany refused to indemnify Mexico, President Manuel Avila Camacho declared war on the Axis powers.""


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Was Mexicos help necessary for the allies to win ww2?
No, but Mexico is one of the two Latin American nations to have declared war on Germany, following the US's lead.


Mexico sent a unit of its air force to serve in the Phillippines during the war, and had some oil tankers sunk in the Gulf of Mexico by German U-boats.





It was a welcome act of support and solidarity, but not essential to the prosecution of the war.
Reply:No





In WW 1, the Germans tried to get the Mexicans to attack the US, but the Mexicans never did, but the US knew about it. They wouldn't have been trusted much when WW2 rolled around, plus they were already much behind the rest of the 'western world' at that time in terms of resources, wealth, industrilization, and military, so even if they wanted to help, they wouldn't have been able to do anything militarily.
Reply:Mexico contributed to the Allied war effort in a few different ways, but I wouldn't say it was necessary. Mexico provided oil, raw materials, and manpower for the United States. The Mexican military also fought against Germany and Italy in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, and against Japan in the Philippines and Taiwan.


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