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Mexican Revolution

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1 They set up ________ to watch Huerta and try to ensure he did not gain entry into Mexico.

2 Díaz became the ________ he had warned the people against.

3 Against Madero's wishes, Orozco and Villa fought for and won Ciudad Juárez, bordering ________, Texas, along the Rio Grande.

4 Zapata and his army and allies, including ________, fought for agrarian reform in Mexico.

5 He was driven out of ________ by Villa and Zapata in 1915, but later gained the support of the masses by the development of a program of social and agrarian reform.

6 These victories encouraged other military and political alliances, including ________.

7 The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, ________, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements.

8 He was stopped at the border in ________, by the United States government and kept there under house arrest.

9 This resulted in the rise of an urban proletariat and the influx of foreign capital (principally from the ________.

10 Presidents Porfirio Díaz and ________ called Zapata a womanizer, barbarian, terrorist, and a bandit.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 1915, during the Mexican Revolution, Woodrow Wilson allowed Carranza's troops to be moved over US territory, contributing to Pancho Villa's (pictured) defeat at the Second Battle of Agua Prieta?
  • the pre-Columbian ruins of Teopanzolco in Mexico are said to have been rediscovered during the Mexican Revolution when an artillery emplacement shook loose some dirt from the stonework?
  • the Battle of Cuautla between the Zapatistas (pictured) and troops of Porfirio Diaz, has been described as "six of the most terrible days of battle" in the Mexican Revolution?
  • during the Mexican Revolution, the rebel leader Jesús Salgado, whose revolt often shaded into outright banditry, led 5000 Zapatista troops in the taking of the capital of Guerrero, Chilpancingo?
  • during the Mexican Revolution, Metropolitan Magazine sent reporter John Reed to Mexico where he stayed with Pancho Villa?
  • Mexican revolutionary Rubén Jaramillo ran for governor of Morelos twice and led two armed rebellions against the government?
  • Russian native Emilio Kosterlitzky, known as the Mexican Cossack, spoke nine languages, jumped ship in Venezuela, fled to Mexico where he fought in the Apache Wars and in the Mexican Revolution, and eventually became an undercover operative for the U.S. government during World War I?
  • Pablo González, the Carranzistan chief responsible for Emiliano Zapata's murder, was also known as "the general who never won a victory" during the entire Mexican Revolution?
  • the grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Boer general Ben Viljoen, and future Hollywood Western star Tom Mix (pictured) fought for the rebel army in the Battle of Ciudad Juárez, part of the Mexican Revolution?
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