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  • Santa Anna

    Santa Anna

    He was the president of Mexico five times due to his military success between 1833-1855. He was originally a liberal reformer but turned into a conservative as he had grown more powerful over the years. He was exiled from his country several times, only to be completely thrown out of his country by reformers.
  • Napoleon III

    Napoleon III

    The first president and last monarch to reign over France. Saw over the second Franco-Mexican war which led to the second Mexican empire which was a client state of the Fench empire.
  • Benito Juarez

    Benito Juarez

    The 26th president of Mexico and the first president of Mexico of indigenous origin. He helped the Mexican government move away from military authoritarianism.
  • Austrian Archduke Maximilian

    Austrian Archduke Maximilian

    He was appointed as the emperor of Mexico and had much support because he was believed to restore the power of the Church in Mexico. He however did not restore the church he rather wanted to abolish peonage and had antagonized the Roman Catholic Hierarchy by refusing to restore vast church holdings confiscated by Juarez.
  • Sino-Japanese War of 1894

    Sino-Japanese War of 1894

    1870s → Korea was forced by Japan to open three ports to Japanese merchants and pledge allegiance to China
    In 1894 a rebellion had broken out and had brought military attention to both the Japanese and Chinese who sent troops to Korea. This led to an altercation between the troops and ended in the defeat of China
  • Jose Marti

    Jose Marti

    a poet and journalist who communicated to Cubans through his writing. He urged them to continue fighting for independence from Spain. He also founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party and was killed in retaliation attacks from Spain.
  • Emilio Aguinaldo

    Emilio Aguinaldo

    A rebel leader in the Philippines who cooperated with the U.S. forces against the Spanish felt betrayed.
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War

    The Spanish-American war started because of propaganda and yellow journalism. In 1898, when a US battleship mysteriously exploded, Americans immediately assumed that Spain was responsible. This led to Congress declaring war against Spain.
  • Teddy Roosevelt

    Teddy Roosevelt

    During the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905, both sides of the War had asked President Roosevelt of the US to help them by negotiating a peace treaty, because the Japanese could not get the Russians to surrender. This Treaty was the Treaty of Portsmouth. This treaty gave Japan control of the railroad lines in southern Manchuria and transferred Russia leased on two Manchurian ports to Japan
  • Roosevelt corollary

    Roosevelt corollary

    implemented into the Monroe Doctrine by Roosevelt. It was created to protect U.S. interests and maintain stability in Latin America.
  • Porfirio Diaz

    Porfirio Diaz

    Diaz had been next in power after the death of Juarez. In his reign as President, he had maintained law and order in Mexico by sending his enemies to prison and kept the peace through the use of his army.
  • Francisco Madero

    Francisco Madero

    Francisco Madero was a man who declared himself as the president of Mexico when he fled to Texas. He called for a revolution against the Díaz government and caused rebellions all over the nation. He was later executed in 1914.
  • Pancho Villa

    Pancho Villa

    He led a band of rebels who supported Francisco Madero’s ideas, which disgraced Porfirio’s government by capturing the city of Juarez in 1911.
  • Emiliano Zapata

    Emiliano Zapata

    Emiliano Zapata led a group of indigenous peasants who rose over Díaz and called for land reforms. He and his peasant army revolted against Victoriano Huerta in the south.
  • Victoriano Huerta

    Victoriano Huerta

    Victoriano Huerta was an army chief who seized power and imprisoned Madero. Huerta fueled many revolutions because former supporters of Madero opposed him. Pancho Villa’s small army rose against Huerta.
  • Venustiano Carranza

    Venustiano Carranza

    He declared himself president of Mexico after Huerta fled to Spain. Did not receive support from people like Zapata and Villa, causing another civil war. He became victorious over his rivals in 1915. He took on the task of nation-building and created a constitution in 1917 that would allow the government to redistribute land, limit the power of the church, and protect the rights of the citizens.