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The history of Venezuela during World War II is marked by dramatic change to the country's economy, military, and society. At the beginning of World War II in 1939, Venezuela was the world's leading oil exporter, and subsequently one of the main beneficiaries of the American Lend-Lease programs.
The Oxford Companion to World War II (2005), comprehensive encyclopedia for all countries; Eccles, Karen E. and Debbie McCollin, eds. World War II and the Caribbean (2017) excerpt; Frank, Gary. Struggle for hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War (Routledge, 2021). Friedman, Max Paul.
Sixteen men died in the two attacks. This prompted Mexico to declare war on Germany on 22 May 1942. SS Sylvan Arrow was a tanker of the Standard Oil and Transportation Company during World War II when U-155 torpedoed her. The attack occurred on 20 May just southwest of Grenada in the Caribbean Sea. Attempts to tow her to port did not succeed ...
Expulsion of the English from Spanish America and end of English interruption to Spanish transatlantic transportation and colonial expansion. The English privateers now find their needs in the service of the Dutch. England obtains the Colony of Newfoundland and Bermuda, beginning the English colonial Empire. Treaty of London; Acoma War (1598 ...
This is a list of wars involving the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its predecessor states from 1810 to the present. War of Jenkins' Ear (War of the Austrian Succession): Battle of La Guaira – 1743; Battle of Puerto Cabello – 1743; Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808): Cutting out of the Hermione – 1799
Although most countries in the Western Hemisphere eventually entered the war on the Allies' side, Mexico and Brazil were the only Latin American nations that sent troops to fight overseas. The cooperation of Mexico and the United States in World War II helped bring about reconciliation between the two countries at the leadership level. [50]
Both Mexico and Venezuela share a common history in the fact that both nations were once part of the Spanish Empire.During the Spanish colonial period, Mexico was then known as Viceroyalty of New Spain and the capital being Mexico City while what became nowadays Venezuela was known then as the Captaincy General of Venezuela with Caracas as its capital.
By 1940, Mexico had an agreement with the American Sinclair Oil Corporation to sell crude oil to the U.S., and the full-scale war in Europe guaranteed that Mexican oil would have international customers. [8] PEMEX developed into one of the largest oil companies in the world and helped Mexico become the world's seventh-largest oil exporter. [9]