Carranza established a strong government in Mexico from 1917-1920 to confront economic, political, social and military crises, but he was later assassinated. Obregon and Calles then led the governments in the 1920s, with Calles remaining president until 1934 and continuing Obregon's policies. Calles enforced anti-clerical articles of the 1917 constitution, angering Catholic groups and sparking the violent Cristero Rebellion. He also created the National Revolutionary Party, later renamed the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which became Mexico's long-ruling single party. During the 1930s, Cardenas nationalized Mexico's oil industry, sparking tensions with the United States, before passing power to Camacho as president

1. POSTREVOLUTIONARY
GOVERNMENTS AND
MEXICAN MIRACLE

2. Carranza's government
Carranza was president from 1917-1920. The
government confronted an economic, political,
social and military crisis. But Carranza
organized a strong government.
He died assassinated when he ran away.

3. The governments of Obregon and
Calles.
 Obregon chose Plutarco
Calles as his successor.
Calles a military men and
church groups to launch a
revolt led by Adolfo de la
Huerta which lasted only a
few months. Calles won
the election of 1924 and
was to remain Mexico's
president until 1934.

4. The Cristero Rebellion
 Unlike Obregon, who DECIDED not to Strongly
anti-clerical enforce the articles of the
Constitution of 1917, Calles Decided to do so
which violent had very important
consequences. Angered, Calles struck back by
outlawing religious processions and closing
church schools, monasteries and convents.

5. The formation of the single party. The
military and the trade unions and rural
 Calles created the political party that called PNR
(National Party Revolutionary). Later became to
PRM (Mexican Revolutionary Party). Then Manuel
Avila Camacho chanced to PRI (Institutional
Revolutionary Party)

6. The Maximato
 The period of 1928-1934, in which Elias Calles
directed Mexican politics presidents appointing
Emilio Portes Gil, Pascual Ortiz Rubio and Abelardo
Rodriguez, known as "Maximato de Calles". The
government suffered a terrible economic crisis to be
met as The Great Depression.

7. The Cardenismo
 Lazaro Cardenas
came to power. During
the first years of their
government over a
thousand workers
staged strikes in which
demanded the
immediate solution of
their problems.
It promulgated the
constitution of 1917.

8.  As a reaction to the
nationalization of oil, the
government of the United
States organized a
boycott against
Mexico. Because of the
internal and external
pressures the
government of Lazaro
Cardenas decided to
support the candidacy of
Avila Camacho. He took
the posession of the

9. The Mexican Miracle
 From 1940-1952 Mexico had a great opportunity
to develop case the industrial powers were in the
Second World War and products needed
Mexican industry provided them with all that they
could not produce because their industry was in
the manufacture of weapons for war.

10. The Stabilizer Development
Stage
 The finance of the industry was achieved from
external debt.
 To support the development of the industry, the
Mexican governments, maintained high taxes to
import products, so the people bought the things
made by the country.