The Puntitive Expedition:
-Zapata was not a politician and he made it known to everyone that he wasn't interested
-From August 1914-August 1915, Mexico City expirienced it's darkest times. First, Obregon had control, then the zapatistas roamed the streets, then the villistas reign of terror
-Zapatistas mindlessly looted the villistas
-Mixed and mostly negative feeling about Villa
-Zapata worked on 2 main principles: 1) Always support village leaders against professionals. 2) The civilians must take precedence over the military
-On October 19th, Woodrow Wilson recognized Carranza's government and embargoed all arms sales to his enemies
-Villa is mad at Wilsons recognition of Carranzas goverment and writes a manifesto condeming it
-Villa had extreme rage at the beginning of 1916. So much so that some thought he was suffering from temporary insanity
-Wilson does not want to be dragged into a full-scale with Mexico
-Villa is beginning to gain support because of his anti-gringo propaganda
-Villa wins a significant victory over Carranza and took 80 prisioners and hundreds of weapons.
-Villa took a bad wound in the right knee during battle and went into hiding in a cave for 7 weeks in order to recuperate
-4 way conflict between Villa, Carranza, Wilson and Pershing
-Puntitive Expedition was one of the United States greatest humiliations during the Mexican Revolution
-February 1917/ German foriegn secretary Arthur Zimmerman sent a telegram in code to his ambassador in Mexico City in order to warn him of the beginnings of unrestricted submarine warfare
-The real beneficiary of the Puntitive Expedition was Villa, in the end
-Villas popularity increases so much that everyone forgets his past failures and mistakes. More popular than ever!
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