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European power tried to regain control of Mexico
This is significant because Santa Anna fought against the Europeans. After successfully beating them he became president -
Santa Anna became Mexico's president
This is significant because Santa Anna fought against the Europeans. After successfully beating them he became president -
Stephen Austin encouraged a revolt against Mexico
This is significant because this was one out of four times Santa Anna became president. Santa Anna later became a great president -
US annexed Texas
This is significant because this was the first act for Texas being a separate country and later on one of the states of US -
Benito Juarez served as governor of Oaxaca
This is significant because this ended the war between Texas and Mexico, now Texas was officially one of the states of the US -
US and Mexico signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This is significant because without him becoming governor he couldn't have started La Reforma -
Santa Anna's final fall
This is significant because the two countries came up with an agreement and Santa Anna was exhiled. -
Conservatives launched a rebellion against liberal government
This is significant because this was the end of a great leader, he remained in exile for almost 20 years. -
Juarez became president of the reunited country
This is significant because the liberals won which led to a Civil war. At the end Juarez was elected president -
Napoleon III sent a large army to Mexico
This is signficiant because Mexico was under civil war and finally a hinest, hard working president was elected -
Juarez was reelected president of Mexico
This is significant because this ended the rule of France, after five years of seige the Mexicans were finally independent. -
Napoleon withdrew from Mexico
This is significant because war between France and Mexico broke out, withing eighteen months France was in control of Mexico -
Lenin
(1870-1924) by the early 1900s, he planned to overthrown the czar. After the revolution in 1917, Russian revered him as the “father of the revolution.” His ideas are called Leninism. -
Juarez died of a heart attack
This is significant because he was a really good president in the past, he returned to reforms. -
Diaz took control of Mexico by ousting the president.
This is significant because a great president of Mexico died, he left his country a legacy of relative peace, progress, and reform. -
Triple Alliance
The Triple Alliance consisted of Germany, Ausria-Hungry, and Italy. This was before World War I. This is significant because this was one of the two main groups in the Great War. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II
He is significant because he did not befriend with Russia. So the Russians could not be with Germany. Because of that Germany did not have much help in the Great War. -
Militarism
Militarism was the policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war. This was significant because this firghtened some people and it was one of the reasons for the Great War. -
New Weapons of War
This is significant because when the war started new wepons were made like guns and other dangerous stuff. Because of all the new weaponary lots of people died. -
Soviet
A soviet originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. According to the official historiography of the Soviet Union, the first Soviet (in this sense) was organized during the 1905 Russian Revolution in Ivanovo in May 1905. However in his memoirs Volin claims that he witnessed the creation of the St Petersburg Soviet in Saint Petersburg in January 1905. The councils were later adopted by the Bolsheviks, as the basic organizing unit of society. -
Schlieffen Plan
This was a German plan during World War I. The plan was to cut through Belgium to get to France. This is significant because the Germans conquer a country that was neutral, which is not allowed. -
Triple Entente
The Triple Entente consisted of Russia, France, and Great Britain. They were significant because this group was one of the two groups that fought in the Great War. When the war began they became known as the Allies -
Powder keg
With a long history of nationalist uprisings and ethnic clashes, the Balkans was known as the Powder keg of Europe -
Francisco Madero announced his candidacy fir president of Mexico, but Diaz had him arrested.
This is significant because Diaz became the new president and start to rule the country. But wealthy become richer and poor become poorer. -
Francisco “Pancho” Villa arose in north.
This is significant because this is the first act in the Mexican Revolution, He begins the revolutions in Mexico. -
Propaganda
This was significant because the propagandas promoted men to join the army. It also promoted that the other team is the bad guy. -
Emiliano Zapata raised a revolution army in south.
This is significant because he had a bold Robin hood policy of taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor. -
Diaz agreed to step down.
This is significant because he raised an army against Diaz and he wanted the laws reformed to protect peasants’ and farmers’ rights. -
Proletariat
The Marxist revolutionaries believed that the industrial class of workers would overthrow the czar. These workers would then form “a dictatorship of the proletariat.” This mean that the proletariat--- the workers would rule the country. -
November Madero was elected president.
This is significant because this ended the rule of Porfirio Diaz; A new election was called. -
Madero resigned because he realized he couldn’t hold the on to power.
This is significant because Madero became the new ruler of Mexico. But Villa and Zapata still against him because his policies are too liberal. -
Feneral Victoria Huerta became the ruler of Mexico.
This is significant because the end of Madero’s rule. And he was assassinated shortly after. -
Carranza took control of the government.
This is significant because Victoria Huerta came to power, but Villa and Zapata formed revolutionary allies against him. -
West Front
The deadlocked region in northern France was known as Western Front during WWI -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
He was significant because his assasination was Austro-Hungarian's excuse to start the war. The Serbians assasinated him and the Austro-Hungarians got furious. -
East Front
This area was a stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border. -
Allies
The triple entente changed their name to the Allies when the war started. But also included Italy. They are significant because they were the winners in the war -
Central Powers
The Central powers consisted of Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire. They were significant because they were one of the two groups who participated in World War I -
Trench warfare
Trench warfare was kind of fighting that had to be done in trenches. This is significant because after seeing the horrifying sights of trench warfare everyone decided not to have another war. But a few years later World War II comes along. -
Nationalism
This is significant because this wwas one of the reasons for the Great War. If there was no nationalism then the Austro-Hungarians would not have sarted a war with the Serbian because of the assasination. -
Total War
This meant that countries devoted all their resources to the war effort. This is significant because every one really wanted to win and they would do anything for triumph. -
Rationing
during the WW1, many goods were in short supply that governments turned to rotation. Under this system, people could buy only small amounts of those items that were also needed for the war. Rotating covered a wild range of goods. From butter to shoe leather. -
Communist party
in Russia and the Soviet Union, political party that until 1991 exercised all effective power within the Soviet Union, and, as the oldest and for a long time the only ruling Communist party in the world, carried heavy or controlling influence over the Communist parties of other countries. -
Unrestricted submarine warfare
The use of unrestricted submarine warfare was announced by Germany on January 9th, 1917. The use of unrestricted submarine warfare was to have a major impact on World War One as it was one of the main reasons why America joined the war. -
Provisional government
The Provisional Government is the name given to the government that led Russia from March 1917 to November 1917. Throughout its existence, the Provisional Government met at the Tauride Palace. By July it was led by Alexander Kerensky - the man who had informed the Duma on March 11th that 25,000 troops were on the way to support them. -
Bolsheviks
member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power. The group originated at the party’s second congress (1903) when Lenin’s followers, insisting that party membership be restricted to professional revolutionaries, won a temporary majority on the party’s central committee and on the editorial board of its newspaper Iskra. They assumed the name Bolsheviks and dubbed -
Woodrow Wilson
President Wilson had drawn up a series of peace proposal. Known as Fourteen Points, they outline a plan for achieving a just and lasting peace. -
Self-determinant
the guiding idea behind Wilson’s fourteen points was self-determinant. This meant allowing people to decide for themselves under what government they wished to live. -
Influenza epidemic of 1918
In the spring of 1918, a powerful new enemy emerged, the Spanish flu, as it was popularly know, it had spread through Europe, Russia, Asia, and to the US. This global epidemic was more destructive than the war itself, killing 20 million people worldwide. -
Armistice
Kaiser Wilhelm II steeped down. German declared itself a republic. A representative of the new German government met with French commander Marshal Foch in a railway car near Paris, The two signed an Armistice, or an arrangement to stop fighting. On November 11, the war came to an end. Significant: the end of WW1. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles between German and the Allies powers was signed on June 28, 1919, five years to the day after Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in Sarajevo. -
Georges Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau was the president of France. He was significant because he made the triple entente and he made France help fight the Germans in World War I -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was presented by the president of the US. This is significant because the League of Nations developed to become the United Nations. -
Fourteen Points
When the war was over president Woodrow Wilson presented the fourteen points to France. All of them were rejected except the last one. Which was the creation of the League of Nations. This is significant because if these points were not presented then we probably would not have the UN today. -
War-guilt clause
After the Germans had lost the war, the allies made the treaty of Versailles. This included the war-guilt clause. The War-guilt clause is admiting that the Germans were responsible for the war. This is significant because the war-guilt clause really angered the Germans.
