1. P. Diaz gets old
Constitution of 1917, party of the Institutionalized Revolution
Madero imprisoned
Civil War Ends
Obregon comes to power
Madero Runs for Office
Civil War breaks out (name the two main revolutionaries)
Huerta installed in power

2. Mexican Revolution via Murals

3. Small pox decimated Aztecs
Conquest by Jose Orozco
Spanish Conquest
Hernan Cortes 1519
Aztecs surrender 1521
Winged angel shows partnership of Church and Cortes
Fire in background represents widespread destruction of Spanish soldiers and smallpox.
Cortes is carrying an iron sword – resting on dismembered bodies of Aztec victim
Aztecs had no metal to match iron’s strength
What is this?
Cortes is a machine… symbolic of European technology
Small pox decimated Aztecs

4. Absorption of the Indian by Jose Orozco
White European, Hernan Cortes, sits with an Indian woman, Malinche.
Partnership
Symbolic of mixing of two groups to create mestizo people.
Mestizo make up majority of Mexicans today
Yet, restraint – many Mexicans consider Mayan Malinche a traitor
Legend: Malinche was given to Cortes as a translator – later they produced a son
Dead mestizo shows unhappiness and ill-treatment of mestizo

5. Repression during rule of Porfirio Diaz (34 year rule)
Repression – History and Perspective of Mexico
Repression during rule of Porfirio Diaz (34 year rule)
1876 Diaz came to power – dictator for 34 years.
Welcomed foreign investors
Government forces on horse heavily loaded with weapons
Police enforced Diaz’ laws
Sickle represents farm workers
Note force used to control farmers (land fell into hands of huge hacienda owners).

6. Revolution against Porfirian (Porfirio Diaz) Dictatorship 1911 unseated Diaz
Peasants lost lands and were forced to work on large haciendas for little wage – conditions near slavery
Government forces used to coerce the farm hands to work.
Peasants responded by rebelling against government.

7. Nation Culture changed as Zapata and Madero became heroes.
Land Distribution by Diego Rivera
Nation Culture changed as Zapata and Madero became heroes.
1910 – 2% owned land
1940 – 33% owned land (President Lazaro Cardenas)
Madero became president 1911
Most tangible result of revolution was the redistribution of hacienda land to landless
1917 Constitution guaranteed lands and factory workers protection

8. Russian
Revolution

9. What does this slide show? Where have you seen this before?
The Tsar, the Priest and the Rich Man on the Shoulders of the Laboring People, colored lithograph by A. Apsit, 1918.
Where have you seen this before?

10. Groundwork for Revolution
Before 1917, many communists wanted to start a revolution…somewhere.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, or Lenin, proposed:
immediate overthrow of the Russian government
Put a dictator in power until the people could govern themselves.
Workers of the world uniting to spread communist revolution

11. The red peasant, soldier and workingman (on the left) to the Cossack (center): “Cossack, with whom are you? With us or with them?”—(the landlords, generals and capitalists).

12. “To defend Petrograd to the last ounce of blood, to refuse to yield a foot, and to carry the struggle into the streets of the city.”
Trotsky’s decree to the council of Defense, 1919
Trotsky on Guard!

13. “Red Army Fighters Save Us!”

14. This picture shows Lenin and his rabid revolutionaries sacrificing a religious figure at the altar of what looks like Karl Marx

15. Italian Propaganda

16. Jews Are the Enemy!

17. 13. Controlled Mass Media

18. The Fascists encouraged the development of large families.
The Fascist Family
The Fascists encouraged the development of large families.

19. Education