Whitney Gross was gone today, so Mr. Bruns went over the information we need to know.Governments were overthrown consistintly. This was not uncommon for Latin America. The Government hoards everything and everyone else in the country is poor, typically. Mexico had a leader by the name of Diez. We liked him. Mexican people did not like him because he liked America. Since he like us, America mainly controlled the mines, railroads, banks, etc. If we wanted Mexico to do something, we would tell Diez and he would make it happen. Diez was ultimately overthrown by Madero. Madero was killed within several weeks. He was killed by Huerta. The leader was then Huerta. Wilson decided that we are not going to recognize a something of butchers. Carranza eventually took over Huerta. He was very friendly with the US. He allowed the US to take over companies. He is more of a pro-US guy at first. Pancho Villa started attacking and killed thousands of Americans in Mexico. Then went north to New Mexico and killed about twelve more. This lead to war.US military invaded Mexico in 1915. Carranza's military clashes with our military and went after Villa. We invaded Mexico. Both sides agreed we need to settle it and we pull our troops out.The Zimmerman Note was a letter that asked Mexico to get into the war against us (US.) This was put into the newspapers. Germany thought this might work. Mexico and US were not on good terms after this.
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