Mexico 1917-1980

By JoelChavez
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    Mexico 1917-1980

  • Mexican Revolution

    The Mexican Revolution was adopted
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    Don't mind the months... the year is what matters :D

  • Art during the revolution

    José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera decided that the revolution must be expressed with art

  • Assasination of Emiliano Zapata

    Emiliano Zapata is assassinated by the government while making peace treaties

  • Assasination of Carranza

  • Eruption of the Popocatepetl in Mexico

  • Plutarco Elías Calles serves as president

  • Plutarco Elías Calles nationalized all church property

  • The PRI began ruling

  • Cemex was formed

  • Mexico ablished death penalty

  • Casino gambling was outlawed in Mexico

  • Plutarco Elías Calles created the AGPN

    A public organism to guide the Mexican oil industry

  • The National Action Party (PAN) was founded.

  • Father Maciel founded the Legion of Christ.

  • References

    Timeline Mexico 1970-1997. (n.d.). Retrieved April 06, 2016, from http://timelines.ws/countries/MEXICO_B.HTML Timeline Mexico to 1969. (n.d.). Retrieved April 06, 2016, from http://www.timelines.ws/countries/MEXICO_A.HTML

  • Women were given the right to vote

  • Mexico and US agreed to the co-construction of the dam in the Rio Grande

  • Soldiers took part in the mutilating of the leader of coffee farmers in EL Tuci

  • Explosion in the Rio Grande

    Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and the president of the US set an explosion in the Rio Grande, reshaping the US-Mexican border.

  • BIP is introduced

    Mexico’s Border Industrialization Program (BIP) was first introduced, this led to the construction of maquiladoras to produce goods for export

  • Tlatelolco protesters are killed. Over 300 people died

  • Games of the XIX Olympiad were celebrated in Mexico.

  • World Cup takes place in Mexico, the winner was Brazil.

  • Mexico’s National Fund for Workers Housing was created

  • Quintana Roo became a state of Mexico

  • The first UN Women’s Conference was held in Mexico City.

  • The peso was devalued and caused financial crisis

  • US-Mexico Extradition Treaty

  • Mexico ended bilateral fishing agreement with US in dispute over Tuna

  • Coca-Cola switched cane sugar

    US bottlers of Coca-Cola switched from cane sugar to high-fructose corn syrup in the 1980s to cut costs. Mexican bottlers continued to use cane sugar.

  • Death penalty of mexicans in US

    A US-Mexico Extradition Treaty allowed Mexico to refuse extradition of suspects facing the death penalty in the US.