Development of Democracy in Mexico and Poland

By JuanPa1999
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    Development of Democracy in Mexico and Poland

  • Madero is elected president on 1911

  • US recognizes Obregon’s government

  • Cardenas nationalizes country’s oil

  • students protest against the lack of democracy in Mexico and get shot down.

  • Tadeusz Mazowiecki of Solidarity became the Prime Minister and the communist government, in a heretofore unprecedented development, actually ceded power as the result of an election.

  • -The visit of Pope John Paul II to Poland in 1979 set in motion the changes, that later will develop the democracy

  • The wave of strikes that began in the Gdansk Shipyards in 1980 gave birth to the Solidarity trade union. ( Poland)

    The wave of strikes that began in the Gdansk Shipyards in 1980 gave birth to the Solidarity trade union.

  • at the end of the 1989 was when Poland finally officially achieved full democracy.

  • -By early 1989, the Polish regime was forced into negotiations with a united opposition led by Solidarity.

  • Carlos Salinas signs the North American Free Trade Agreement.

  • -PAN wins the elections and ends the PRI rule, this leads to a better and more established democracy.