World War II Propaganda Poster (1943)
Mexico declared war on the Axis powers on May 22, 1942, days after two of its oil tankers, Potrero del Llano and Faja de Oro, were destroyed by German U-boats in the Gulf of Mexico. While some Mexican troops fought alongside US troops against the Japanese in the Phillipines towards the end of the war, Mexico’s main contribution to the war effort was the enactment of the Bracero Program, a guest worker program which eventually sent hundreds of thousands of Mexican men to work in the United States during its two decade-long history.
