EE Sample 6: The Reforms of Lázaro Cárdenas’ Presidency (New criteria A grade)
To what extent were President Lázaro Cárdenas’ reforms successful in redressing the domestic crisis in Mexico between December 1934 and December 1940? (See next page for Bibliography and Appendix) Inheriting a country haunted by the violence and turmoil of the 1910-1917 Mexican revolution and a domestic crisis exacerbated by the 1929 economic global crash, Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico’s 45th president,1 was in power...