IB World US History: Mexico and the Great Depression
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 CROM | Confederacion Regional Obrera Mexicana led by Luis Morones |
| Alvaro Obregon | President during WWI years. Domestic Reforms, Labor, and Agrarian reforms. |
| James Sheffield | The US ambassador to mexico who portrayed Calles as a communist. Was fired by Coolidge |
| Positive Acts | Part of Article 27 in 1917. oil lands could not be seized |
| article 3 of the Mexican Const. | All public edu would be secular, separate from church |
| Jose Vasconcelos | Secretary of edu. Anti-positivist |
| "Cuca" Garcia | Feminist, socialist |
| Dwight Morrow | US ambassador to Mexico |
| Plutarco Calles | Successor to Obregon in 1924-1934. Radical rep. land owners. Loss of property. Church leaders recognized Calles as an anticleric. |
| Luis Morrones | leader of CROM, est. a balance between labor and capital. |
| Josephus Daniels | --, US ambassador to Mexico who settled the issues in the oil industry |
| Jose Toral | was a Roman Catholic militant who assassinated general Álvaro Obregón, president elect of Mexico in 1928. |
| The Cristero Rebellion | Under Calles' presidency, this was the battle between church and state. |
| Diego Rivera | Mexican artist |
| Article 27 | Oil lands could not be seized if the nation performed a positive act, like building an oil derrick. |
| Ortiz Rubio | 1930 to 1932, having previously served as Governor of Michoacán from 1917 to 1918 and as secretary of communications from 1920 to 1921. Ortiz stood in the election of 17 November 1929 as the candidate of the newly-formed National Revolutionary Party, the forerunner of the PRI. His defeated opponent was José Vasconcelos, a former minister of education, national luminary against corruption and Calles's authoritarian rule,[1] and candidate of the Anti-Re-election Party, However, Rubio was an ineffective leader.Alleging excessive interference in his presidency by former president Plutarco Elías Calles, whom Rubio demonstrated independence from while in office and still seriously shaken by an attempt on his life at the very start of his mandate he resigned the presidency on 4 September 1932. He was succeeded by interim president Abelardo L. Rodríguez. |
| Maria Conchita | --- |
| Banco de Credito Ejidal | Emerged at the end of the Cardenas presidency in 1940; Haciendas were now a thing of the past. |
| Lazaro Cardenas | President of Mexico (1934-1940). He brought major changes to Mexican life by distributing millions of acres of land to the peasants, bringing representatives of workers and farmers into the inner circles of politics, and nationalizing the oil industry 820 |
| CMT | Confederation of Mexican Workers |
| Vicente Lombardo Toledano | He founded the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), the national labor federation most closely associated with the ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), for most of the last sixty-five years of that century. |
| Tenetes | Brazillian rebels of the oligarchy |
| Getulio Vargas | a cattle owner elected prez. of Brazil by the tenetes |
| The Estado Novo | Vargas's government that went against communists and for European style fascism |
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