HIST 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pancho Villa, Francisco I. Madero, Porfirio Díaz
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Leads a coup against madero: madero gets overthrown and killed by huerta, wilson supported madero. Struck a deal with madero that he was not going to take away the land that the. Us has hold of: huerta takes away the land and still to this day americans can not own land in. Imperialism- the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas. Scramble for africa: berlin conference (1884-1885, all the european countries come and they all want a piece of africa because of its resources. If you already had a foothold in a part of africa you got that and a lot of land outside of it as well: many countries go to war with the natives there.
