Mexican Revolution
1910s armed political transformation
The Mexican Revolution was a major armed conflict in Mexico from roughly 1910 to 1920, overthrowing the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz and reshaping the country's political and social order.
The revolution involved multiple factions with competing visions—agrarian reformers like Emiliano Zapata, populist leaders like Pancho Villa, and constitutionalists who ultimately prevailed.
It produced Mexico's 1917 constitution and remains central to Mexican national identity.
- Pancho VillaMexican guerrilla leader
- Emiliano ZapataAgrarian reform martyr
- ZapatistasMexican revolutionary indigenous movement
- campesinoSpanish-speaking rural farmer
- land redistributionReassigning property among populations
corrido · agrarian reform · muralism · tierra · haciendas · rebel · Cinco de Mayo · revolutionaries · pueblo · bandolier · guerrilla warfare · peasant · uprising · land reform · Villa · federales · horseback · adobe
- Mexican HistoryMexican Independence, Mexican-American War, Aztec Empire, Cinco de Mayo, Aztecs
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- Revolutionsoverthrow, uprising, revolt, insurrection, rebellions
Mexican Revolutionpalace coup
Overthrow by regime insiders
coup d'état · military coup · putsch · bloodless coup · dynastic succession
Mexican Revolutionancien régime
Replaced system of governance
status quo · political stability · established order · social conservatism · peacetime
Mexican Revolutioncounterrevolution
Reversal of political upheaval