International Events 1914-1980

  • United States failed kiling Francisco Villa

    United States failed kiling Francisco Villa
    Villa attacked Columbus in New Mexico and because of this, The United States decided to send part of its army go to Chihuahua to kill Villa, and after 11 months of a persecution that wasn't successful the US returned the troops to the country.
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    Carranza officially became president after elections

    Was president of mexico only during 3 years, he was elected president with the party Partido Liberal Constitucionalista. During his government he tried to peace all the country, deal with the insecurity, and also with the political and social problems.
    Consequences: achievements during his government he organize three types of army, reorganize the administration of the country and the political powers.
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    Causes: After The Great War, Europe was left with a very bad economic situation, where it made the rest of the world and big economies such as United States to make loans, but after this a bad situation was presented to the US asweel leading to the economic crisis.
    Consequences: The creation of the new deal
  • Venustiano Carranza was murdered

    Venustiano Carranza was murdered
    Carranza got murder on may 1920 by Rodolfo Herrera and his men who open fire while carranza was sleeping and all because it was like an order of obregon and Herrera was one of Obregon’s man and after the murder, Herrera was put on trial by Obregón.
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    The Great Depression

    This was and event were millions of dollars were lost, braking down thousands of investors. In 1920s, stock market had a quick expansion, and it reached its highest point by August 1929 and By that time, the production went down and unemployment had increased.
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    Government of Alvaro Obregon

    He became president when the revolution was ending.He was one of the greatest generals of the revolution, he joined the military later, in order to fight to keep Madero in charge.With Plutarco Calles and Adolfo de la Huerta, he acted under the Plan of Agua Prieta against Carranza.
  • Plan saltillo

    Plan saltillo
    A document that denied completely Alvaro’s Obregon government and it canceled all reforms and actions realized during his period and it also gave the complete power of the nation to Francisco Murguía.
  • The New Deal

    The New Deal
    Causes: stock market, great depression which was started with the Crash Market in 1929, war, unemployment and huge bankrupt.
    Consequences: Investment in public work, civil uplift and economic recovery.
  • Church reform

    Church reform
    A reform against church were government prohibited church to practice mass and other types of rituals and it also demanded the church to allowed the government to get involved into the private aspects, government didn't give church a legal personality, it limited the number of priests and it also persecuted catholic church, lead to the guerra cristera later on.
  • Mein Kampf is published

    Mein Kampf is published
    Adolf Hitler was in jail because he protested against the government, consequence during the dictatorship of Hitler all germans have to read his book to got the ideologies of nazism
  • Guerra Cristera

    Guerra Cristera
    Causes: government trying to limit the number of priests, government did not recognize legal personality to the Catholic Church, Plutarco Elías Calles wanted to make reforms to Article 130 of the Constitution, persecuting the Catholic Church
  • Guerra Cristera

    Guerra Cristera
    Consequences: Mexican bishops took the decision to suspend mass in churches, The bishops created a pact with the government in which mass could be done again, the priests would calm the insurgents and in return the government would stop interfering in the affairs of the Church
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    Guerra Cristera

    War between society and the government with the purpose of defending people’s belief and also with the purpose of protecting catholic church
  • Maximato

    Maximato
    Cause: The political ideology of the PNR party, Plutarco Elías Calles government
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    Maximato

    3 different governments who were Emilio Portes Gil (1928–1930),Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1930–1932), and Abelardo L. Rodríguez (1932–1934), Education, workers agrarian movement reform. It was a time of political and historical success and development for Mexico.
    cause: the political ideology of the PNR party, Plutarco Elías Calles government
  • 1929 Stock Market Crash

    1929 Stock Market Crash
    Causes: Low salaries, the proliferation of debt, an agricultural sector having struggles and a lot of banking debts that couldn't be payed.
    Consequences: unemployment, lost of money, and the money flow got stucked.
  • PNR Formationn

    PNR Formationn
    The national revolutionary party in the actuality called PRI Institutional Revolutionary Party, it is a political party that held in power in the country for 71 years, it is considered like the state party. It was the only political machine existing, the purpose was to institutionalize the agreements result of the Mexican Revolution and its cause was a grave political crisis caused by the 1928 assassination of president-elect Alvaro Obregón created by Plutarco Elías Calles.
  • Creation of PNR

    Creation of PNR
    Their term of president was lead into an era known as the Maximato
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    Stock Market Crash

    This was an event that was part of the great depression were millions of dollars were lost, braking down thousands of investors. in 1920s, stock market had a quick expansion, and it reached its highest point in August 1929 and By that time, the production went down and unemployment had increased.
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    The New Deal

    This was a deal created by Roosevelt and Keynes, after the Great depression in order to put and end to it and it purpose was to create an economic recovery and have a huge rising in all aspects of society but mostly based in economics.
  • Nationalization

    Nationalization
    When petroleum after years of being a huge monopoly all over USA and british mexico decided to nationalize it with the purpose of being capable of having just 1 owner.(in this case mexico)
  • Nationalism

    Nationalism
    Causes: The establishment of large monopolies such as Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil, Sinclair Oil, among which stand mostly American and British.
    Consequences: Some countries got offended and they ended relationships with mexico,
    and some made a trade embargo but they had to put them away because they needed mexico’s help in WW2
  • Land reform

    Land reform
    A type of change or an addition to laws that demanded land ownership, it demanded proper land distribution among people. Land reform was also made to prevent the unfair distribution of land among the rich people leaving nothing to the low classes.
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    Mexico During WWII Lazaro Cardenas

    Lázaro Cárdenas, another former revolutionary general, is elected president. He revives the revolutionary-era social revolution and carries out an extensive series of agrarian reforms, distributing nearly twice as much land to peasants as had all of his predecessors combined.
  • The Spanish Civil War

    The Spanish Civil War
    Causes: corruption was huge, several social tensions, monarchists, there were people who wanted a republic and they were anti-clerical and that people hoped to reform Spanish society.
    Consequences: Spain was destructed, republicans were put into concentration camps and spanish economy was devastated
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    Spanish Civil War

    War in Spain between republicans and nationalists were nationalists let by General Franco, won, but als an effect left huge problem for Spain as a country. ThIs war also involves the October revolution and was because they wanted to take over Madrid.
  • Mx during WWII Oil industry is nationalized

    Mx during WWII  Oil industry is nationalized
    Cárdenas nationalizes the country’s oil industry, expropriating the extensive properties of foreign-own companies and creating a government agency to administer the oil industry. He remains an influential figure in government throughout the next three decades.
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    World War Two

    The World War two was an event that market history because it is characterised for a massive violation of the human rights and a great destruction of complete nations and economies
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    Mexico during the WWII

    Elected in 1940, Cárdenas’ more conservative successor, Manual Ávila Camacho, forges a friendlier relationship with the U.S., which leads Mexico to declare war on the Axis powers after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. During World War II, Mexican pilots fight against Japanese forces in the Philippines, serving alongside the U.S. Air Force.
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    Mexican Miracle

    Inward growth, protectionism, it was an economic development strategy in order to sustain economic growth. It was the change into a better economy and into a modern and industrialized country. the cause of this was the economic crisis that was taking place in this period.
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    Mexican Miralce stages

    This event was divided into two stages the outward growth who was between this period, it was during the government of Avila Camacho and was the industrialize stage, where industries increase and a great economic and political stability.
  • Trotsky is assassinated

    Trotsky is assassinated
    Trotsky, a very important russian for communism (the left hand of Lenin) its killed in Mexico, probably by order of Stalin. The consequence is that the communist party dont have leadership and finally get disintegrated.
  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials
    Who? Germany 13 trials
    Purpose: gives justice to humans and protect human rights
    cause: world war II
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    Nuremburg Trials

    This broughts war criminals to an international court to be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Nazis plus collaborations of the Nazi rgeime in the Holocuast.
    1st international court, sets the precedent for an international platform of justice
  • Mx during WWII

    Mx during WWII
    Mexico agrees to pay U.S. oil companies $24 million, plus interest, for properties expropriated in 1938.
  • The D day

    The D day
    Causes : Because of the forces were considering the probability of a bigger Allied invasion across the English Channel.
    Consequences: It caused the allies to get liberated of the western europe from Germany’s control.
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    The D day

    It was a battle during World War Two where Normandy was attacked and also american, british and canadian forces were involved it was one of the largest military assaults in the world.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    Causes: Germany was completely disorganized and not administered after the war and needed help from other countries. And also because terms were needed to be set after the war.
    Consequences: The administration of Germany was established including a central Allied Control Council.
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    Potsdam Conference

    It was a conference from that was held by the big three heads of state (Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin) this conference was made to form an international council conformed by foreign ministers with the purpose of administering germany.
  • Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima HUMAN RIGHTS

    Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima  HUMAN RIGHTS
    Who: United States
    Cause: United States send the bomb in revenge for the Pearl Harbor event.
    Consequences: killing tens of thousand of civilians women and children in addition to soldiers. Hiroshima's population has been estimated at 350,000; approximately 70,000 died immediately from the explosion and another 70,000 died from radiation within five years. It was the reason of the Postam Declaration on July 26, 1945.
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    Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

    It was the American B-29 bomber dropped the first deployed atomic bomb over Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days later stuck again, but now in the city of Nagasaki. It happened during the last stage of Second World War. It is the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history with deaths of at least 129,000 people.
  • Creation of the United Nations

    Creation of the United Nations
    Where? San Francisco
    Purpose: maintain security and peace all around the world. Protection of human dignity
    Cause: World War II, failure of the league of nations
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    Creation of the United Nations

    It is an intergovernmental organization to promote international cooperation, preventing another war. It is conformed of 51 member states, there are now 193 with five permanent members of the Security Council—France, the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the UK and the US. It is a several international treaty organizations and conferences with the same purpose that is the regulations of conflicts between nations.
    Long process to the actual creation from 1942 to 1945
  • Mexico joins the UN

    Mexico joins the UN
  • Rename of PNR- PMR- PRI

    Rename of PNR- PMR- PRI
    The ruling government party, founded in 1929, is renamed the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), and will continue its dominance for the next 50 years.
  • Miguel Aleman becomes president

    Miguel Aleman becomes president
    Miguel Alemán becomes the first civilian president of Mexico since Francisco Madero in 1911. In the post-World War II years, Mexico undergoes great industrial and economic growth, even as the gap continues to grow between the richest and poorest segments of the population.
  • The Cold War

    The Cold War
    Causes: The conflicts caused by the war between the superpowers that where us and soviet union led to the decision of going to war to resolve the conflict.
    Consequences: Russian economy suffered, huge social tensions around the world and political problems.
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    The Cold War

    It was a tension between US and soviet union after The Second World War, it lasted most of the second half of the 20th century and it caused several international incidents that bringed some of the powers of the world to disaster.
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    Place: Palais de Chaillot, Paris
    Cuase: End of WWII an historical event of massive violations to human dignity
    Who: United Nations General Assembly
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    Universal declarations of Human Rights

    It is composed of 30 articles, they are the unspoken rules of humanity, they try to maintain freedom, justice and peace in the world, they represents the first global expression of rights to which human beings are inherently entitled.
  • Geneva convention

    Geneva convention
    Where? Switzerland
    Purpose: Protection of war victims
    Who? an international conference of diplomats
    Cause: violation of human rights during world war II
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    Geneva Convention

    This convention sets the rules for welfare, protect people during war time, peace after war, their purpose is to regulates the conduct of armed conflict and seeks to limit its effects. Their main action is to protect people not taking part in hostilities.The Geneva Convention apply in all cases of declared war, or in any other armed conflict between nations.
  • Cuban Revolution

    Cuban Revolution
    Batista reelect himself in 1953, the consequence is that Cuba government change into communism. This process takes 6 years of war to finish and with Castro as president.
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    Mexican Miracle stages

    The second stage was during the period of 1956-1970 this stage was the inward growth, where the country consumed what they produced.
  • Tlatelolco massacre

    Tlatelolco massacre
    As a symbol of its growing international status, Mexico City is chosen to host the Olympic Games. Over the course of the year, student protesters stage a number of demonstrations in an attempt to draw international attention to what they see as a lack of social justice and democracy in Mexico under the PRI government and its current president, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.
  • Tlatelolco massacre

    Tlatelolco massacre
    Ten days before the Games were to open, Mexican security forces and military troops surround a demonstration at the historic Tlatelolco Plaza and open fire. Though the resulting death and injury toll is concealed by the Mexican government (and their allies in Washington), at least 100 people are killed and many others wounded. The Games go ahead as planned.
  • Movement ´68

    Movement ´68
    An historical event in the one there was anestimated 30 to 300 students and civilians by military and police. It is considered as part of the Mexican Dirty war, because of the force used to suppress political opposition.
    Caused because the government didn't wanted manifestations about politics, so that decided to killed them so the entire world would not watch the real problems at that moment.More than 1,300 people were arrested by security police.
  • Olympics in Mexico

    Olympics in Mexico
    Olympic games in Mexico where the first games that were staged in latin America, it had several events that were significant for the games for example the black power and the ceremony in 12 October 1968 which was a Opening ceremony by Enriqueta Basilio de Sotelo climbing with the Olympic torch and the Official opening of the Games was made by President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
  • Mexico gets into a debt

    Mexico gets into a debt
    Jose López Portillo, elected in 1976, promises to use the oil money to fund a campaign of industrial expansion, social welfare and high-yield agriculture. To do this, his government borrows huge sums of foreign money at high interest rates, only to discover that the oil is generally of low grade. These policies leave Mexico with the world’s largest foreign debt.
  • Huge oil reserves are discovered in the Bay of Campeche

    Huge oil reserves are discovered in the Bay of Campeche
    Huge oil reserves are discovered in the Bay of Campeche, off the shores of the states of Campeche, Tabasco and Veracruz, at the southernmost end of the Gulf of Mexico. The Cantarell oil field established there becomes one of the largest in the world, producing more than 1 million barrels per day by 1981.