Chart of U.S. Interest in Mexican Leadership
(Part of the "Wilson Administration & the First World War" Lecture)

Porfirio Diaz
(Dictator of Mexico—U.S. doesn’t like)

overthrown by

Francisco Madero in 1911
(Democratic Reforms—U.S. likes)

overthrown by

Victoriano Huerta in 1913
(U.S. doesn’t like)

overpowered with help of U.S. support by

Venustiano Carranza in 1914
(U.S. likes)
but U.S. involvement angers
Pancho Villa and some Mexicans

Villa leads anti-U.S. raids and draws attention of
U.S. Army (Punitive Expedition in Mexico under General John J. Pershing, 1916-1917)