Mexican oil expropriation of 1938

Target entity: Mexican oil expropriation of 1938
Context triple: [Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, notableWork, Mexican oil expropriation of 1938]

• A. United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914
  The United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914 was a World War I–era intervention in Mexico in which U.S. forces seized the strategic Gulf Coast city to prevent a German arms shipment from reaching the government of Victoriano Huerta.
• B. Mexican Revolution
  The Mexican Revolution was a major early 20th-century social and political upheaval in Mexico that overthrew the longstanding dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz and reshaped the nation’s land, labor, and governance structures.
• C. Santa Anna dictatorship
  The Santa Anna dictatorship refers to the authoritarian rule of Mexican leader Antonio López de Santa Anna in the mid-19th century, marked by centralization of power, political repression, and instability that helped set the stage for the liberal reforms of La Reforma.
• D. Zapata Plan
  The Zapata Plan was the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s covert operation to organize, train, and support Cuban exiles in the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro’s government.
• E. French intervention in Mexico
  The French intervention in Mexico was a mid-19th-century military campaign in which France, backed at times by Britain and Spain, invaded Mexico to install Emperor Maximilian I and challenge Mexican sovereignty under President Benito Juárez.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Mexican oil expropriation of 1938
Target entity description: The Mexican oil expropriation of 1938 was a landmark nationalization of foreign-owned oil companies by President Lázaro Cárdenas that asserted Mexico’s control over its petroleum resources and reshaped its economic and political landscape.

• A. United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914
  The United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914 was a World War I–era intervention in Mexico in which U.S. forces seized the strategic Gulf Coast city to prevent a German arms shipment from reaching the government of Victoriano Huerta.
• B. Mexican Revolution
  The Mexican Revolution was a major early 20th-century social and political upheaval in Mexico that overthrew the longstanding dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz and reshaped the nation’s land, labor, and governance structures.
• C. Santa Anna dictatorship
  The Santa Anna dictatorship refers to the authoritarian rule of Mexican leader Antonio López de Santa Anna in the mid-19th century, marked by centralization of power, political repression, and instability that helped set the stage for the liberal reforms of La Reforma.
• D. Zapata Plan
  The Zapata Plan was the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s covert operation to organize, train, and support Cuban exiles in the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro’s government.
• E. French intervention in Mexico
  The French intervention in Mexico was a mid-19th-century military campaign in which France, backed at times by Britain and Spain, invaded Mexico to install Emperor Maximilian I and challenge Mexican sovereignty under President Benito Juárez.
• F. None of above. chosen