Editing Foreign relations of Argentina (section)

==World War II==
{{main|Argentina during World War II|Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace}}
As they had during World War I, Argentine governments of different ideological stripes remained consistent in one important foreign policy point: they maintained Argentina neutral, preferring to offer the nation's vast [[Agriculture in Argentina|agricultural export]] capacity to British and U.S. wartime needs; indeed, Argentine trade surpluses totalled US$1&nbsp;billion during World War I and US$1.7&nbsp;billion during World War II.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indec.mecon.ar/nuevaweb/cuadros/19/anuario_com_ext_06.pdf |title=INDEC |access-date=2 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081031130057/http://www.indec.mecon.ar/nuevaweb/cuadros/19/anuario_com_ext_06.pdf |archive-date=31 October 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

In early 1945, the United States and 19 Latin American countries met in Mexico at the [[Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace]]. Argentina was not invited. The conference demanded that Argentina declare war on Germany or else it would be isolated. Argentina did so on  27 March 1945, and kept its status in the Pan-American Union and at the insistence of Latin American delegations was admitted to the new United Nations.<ref>{{cite book|author=Anne Sharp Wells|title=Historical Dictionary of World War II: The War against Germany and Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eR5-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA43|year=2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=43|isbn=9780810879447}}</ref>