Word: baja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico's Heel. To arid, lizard-like Baja (Lower) California, via Nogales, Ariz. and San Diego, Calif., went Mexican troops, moving across U.S. soil with Washington's permission. Avila Camacho, in a smart military-political stroke, named his predecessor Lázaro Cárdenas chief of Mexico's land, air and naval forces on the west coast, concentrated most of his country's tidy little Navy in the Pacific. From his Senate he sought authority to open ports and bases to ships and planes of the U.S. and any American nation at war with...