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	History of Brazil (1930-1945) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aside from the depression and the emergence of the Brazilian bourgeoisie, Brazil's historic dynamic of interregional politics was a significant factor encouraging the alliance that Getúlio Vargas forged between the new urban sectors and the landowners hostile to the government in states other than São Paulo during the Revolution of 1930.
		By 1940 Brazil's capacity for electricity generation reached 1 million kilowatts, of which 60 percent was located in the São Paulo area, primarily due to the construction of hydroelectric power stations.
		The collapse of Brazil's valorization (price support) program, a safety net in times of economic crisis, was strongly intertwined with the collapse of the central government, whose base of support resided in the landed oligarchy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Brazil_(1930-1964) (4900 words)

	Brazil History
		It was overthrown by the military in 1930.
		In 1865 Brazil became involved in a bloody five-year war with Paraguay.
		From 1945 until 1964 the Second Republic was in power.
	www.multied.com /nationbynation/Brazil/History1.html (99 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Brazil, 1930-1945
		Boris Fausto, A Concise History of Brazil, Cambridge Concise Histories, 1999
		On June 30th 1944 Brazil did sent an expeditionary corps, 20,000 men strong, which fought alongside American units in Italy; of them 454 died.
		In 1934, Brazil's communists, whose meetings frequently were attacked by the ultraright Integralistas, founded the ANL (Alliance for National Liberation; in 1935 Brazil passed the National Security Law, permitting the state to take actions against radical political organizations willing to use violence.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/samerica/brazil19301945.html (499 words)

	A BRIEF HISTORY OF BRAZIL
		Brazil was proclaimed a republic with official separation of church and state.
		During this period, Brazil was friendly with the United States and other democracies but broke ties with the Nazi Third Reich because of German political activity in Brazil, including support of an open revolt.
		Pedro II (1825 - 1891), second and last emperor of Brazil was a reformist best remembered for overseeing the abolition of slavery in Brazil, in 1887, and for bringing millions of Italian, German and Polish immigrants to the south of Brazil.
	www.brazilbrazil.com /historia.html (2219 words)

	History of Brazil
		Brazil adopted a policy of neutrality in the early stages of the war, but as a consequence of German attacks on its shipping, the country severed diplomatic relations with Germany in August 1917.
		Defiant action in February 1945 by a group of influential publishers forced the government to relax censorship of the press.
		Banda Oriental was annexed to Brazil in 1821 and renamed Cisplatine Province.
	www.emayzine.com /lectures/HISTOR~6.htm (4390 words)

	BBC NEWS World Americas Country profiles Timeline: Brazil
		Brazil produces 65% of world's coffee by 1902.
		1930 - Revolt places Getulio Vargas at head of provisional revolutionary government.
		2000 - Celebrations to mark Brazil's 500th anniversary marred by protests by indigenous Indians, who say that racial genocide, forced labour and disease have dramatically cut their population from an estimated 5 million before the Portuguese arrived in 1500 to the current 350,000.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1231075.stm (836 words)

	Chapter 6. Government Instability (1930-present)
		Never in the history of Brazil was one able to observe such a high degree of popular participation in the drafting of a law.
		the trial of 150 military police officials accused of the 1996 murder of 19 landless peasants during a protest in the remote north, in what could become the largest trial of its kind in Brazil's history.
		In 1930 the Brazilian writer Gilberto Freyre had to seek refuge in Portugal and the United States because of his political activity.
	members.aol.com /plcooney/brhprsnt.html (3034 words)

	Brazil - All About All findings
		This article is part of the Brazilian History series.
		Brazil 's population is a racial mix of native Amerindians, Portuguese, Africans, Italians, Spaniards, Germans, Syrians, Lebanese and Asians.
		Map of Brazil Topograpic map of Brazil Detailed relief map of Brazil Political map of Brazil The Amazon Rainforest Temperature and precipitation map of Brazil, 1977 Natural vegetation map of Brazil, 1977 Land use map of Brazil, 1977 The country of Brazil occupies a large portion of eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean...
	www.allaboutall.info /search/Brazil (564 words)

	Brazil The Military Republic, 1964-85 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
		The victory of the hard-liners dragged Brazil into what political scientist Juan J. Linz called "an authoritarian situation." However, because the hard-liners could not ignore the counterweight opinions of their colleagues or the resistance of society, they were unable to institutionalize their agenda politically.
		Noting that Brazil was only a "relative democracy," Geisel attempted in April 1977 to restrain the growing strength of the opposition parties by creating an electoral college that would approve his selected replacement.
		Because Brazil was 80 percent dependent on imported oil, Geisel shifted the country from a pro-Israeli stance to closer ties with oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
	www.workmall.com /wfb2001/brazil/brazil_history_the_military_republic_1964_85.html (2385 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Brazil, 1945-1964
		Boris Fausto, A Concise History of Brazil, Cambridge Concise Histories, 1999
		10 % of the votes in the 1945 election.
		The same year Brazil staged the soccer world cup, entering the final game as heavy favourite, but surprisingly losing to neighbour Uruguay 2-1.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/samerica/brazil19451964.html (425 words)

	A short history of Brazil
		Between 1580 and 1640 Brazil is with Portugal Spanish, but at the end of this period, between 1630 and 1654, the Netherlands seize parts of the north-east regions of Brazil.
		In 1815 Brazil becomes as Kingdom of Brazil a constituent part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarve.
		The country is renamed Federative Republic of Brazil in 1967 and Arthur da Costa e Silva becomes president.
	www.electionworld.org /history/brazil.htm (967 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Dulles, Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil"
		Sobral, although a critic of the administration that fell in October 1930, denounced Brazil's new leaders as early as November of that year.
		For three reasons, it seemed to me, attention should be given to Sobral Pinto's activities and writings during what Catholic leader Alceu Amoroso Lima said in 1945 was "the illegality of the last fifteen years": (1) his correspondence, (2) his role as the most constantly forceful oppositionist, and (3) his unusual character.
		(3) With the collapse of censorship in 1945, the Rio press, overwhelmingly anti-Vargas, was filled with articles praising Sobral and his long struggle.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exdulsob.html (1432 words)

	Brazil The Internal Security Mission, 1964-85 - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
		Whereas the turmoil of the 1890s had ended in the "politics of the governors," that of the 1930s ended in the imposition of Brazil's first long-lived authoritarian regime (1937-45).
		As Brazil's crisis deepened in the early 1960s, the military perceived the country as entering an era of subversive warfare.
		In the 1930 coup, military officers of a reformist bent supported Vargas after he declared the previous elections fraudulent and assumed the presidency.
	www.photius.com /countries/brazil/national_security/brazil_national_security_the_internal_securit~6986.html (1797 words)

	Embassy of Brazil
		Historians of Brazil based in the U.S. do not have independent scholarly associations or journals specifically devoted to Brazilian history.
		She was followed by Sandra Lauderdale Graham on domestic servants, Muriel Nazzari on the history of the dowry, Kathleen Higgins on gender and slavery, and Susan Besse on women and economic modernization.
		Social history became increasingly popular with studies on slave resistance, sexuality, daily life, and the relationship of slaves to the state.
	www.brasilemb.org /profile_brazil/brasil_ejournal_bieber.shtml (6420 words)

	Brazil: History
		Brazil drew little benefit from either; far more important were the rise of postwar discontent in the military and beginnings of the large-scale European immigration that was to make SE Brazil the economic heart of the nation.
		Brazil sided with the Allies in World War I, declaring war in Oct., 1917, and shared in the peace settlement, but later (1926) it withdrew from the League of Nations.
		Brazil's economic growth was plagued by inflation, and this issue enabled Vargas to be elected in 1950.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0857011.html (2106 words)

	Transwiki:Petrobras - Yellowikis
		While the company ceased to be Brazil's oil monopoly in the late 1990s, it remains a significant oil and producer, with output of more than 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, as well as a major distributor of oil products.
		The company was founded in 1953 mainly due to the efforts of the Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas.
		The company also owns oil refineries and oil tankers.
	www.yellowikis.org /wiki/index.php/Transwiki:Petrobras (170 words)

	Amazon.com: Father of the Poor? : Vargas and his Era (New Approaches to the Americas): Books: Robert M. Levine,Stuart Schwartz
		A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Boris Fausto
		This book examines the life and times of Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian dictator and president for most of the period from 1930 to 1954.
		Getulio Dorneles Vargas was born on April 19, 1883, in Sao Borja, a small riverside frontier town near the Argentine border of Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521585287?v=glance (724 words)

	Literature - Culture - Brazil - South America: brazil culture, devil pay, brazil history, 1930 year, female novelist
		One of Brazil’s most popular novelists, Jorge Amado, wrote about his native state of Bahia in such works as Gabriela, cravo e canela (1958; Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, 1962), which portrays the experience of migrants from the interior of the Northeast to the cocoa port of Ilheus.
		His Iracema (1865; translated as Iracema the Honey-lips, a Legend of Brazil, 1886) portrayed a romance between an indigenous Brazilian princess and a Portuguese colonist.
		A leading figure was Jose de Alencar, who wrote about Brazil and its history.
	www.countriesquest.com /south_america/brazil/culture/literature.htm (504 words)

	Brazil
		Brazil - Politics and Government - 1930-1945 - Sources
		Brazil - Politics and government - 1930-1945 - Sources
		Brazil: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Archive of Latin Americana
	elibrary.unm.edu /subjects/LAWebGuide/EngMforms/Countries/Brazil.htm (420 words)

	H-Net Review: Todd A. Diacon on Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945
		This is a good book about an interesting but neglected topic: the cultural history of Brazil as seen through events of this fifteen year period of Getulio Vargas's rule in Brazil.
		Exhibits at the National History Museum presented a past that "was wealthier, nobler, whiter and more stable than the citizens of Brazil could actually remember" (p.
		Inside the museums and state agencies supporters and critics fought for the primacy of their visions of Brazil.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=167821011975235 (1016 words)

	The Infography about the Social History of Brazil
		Michael Conniff's Urban Politics in Brazil: The Rise of Populism, 1925-1945 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981) analyzes populism in Rio de Janeiro.
		Wartime Brazil is examined in Robert M. Levine, Brazil in the 1940s Through the Photographs of Genevieve Naylor (Duke University Press, 1998).
		Stefan Zweig's Brazil: Land of the Future (Viking Press, 1941) and Waldo David Frank's South American Journey (Victor Gollancz, 1943) are wartime paeans to Brazil's potential.
	www.infography.com /content/632763079662.html (1503 words)

	MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1945: Brazil
		This year proved to be the most important in the political history of Brazil since 1930, when Getulio Vargas initiated his fifteen year dictatorship.
		In the early morning hours of October 30, 1945, the Minister of War, General Pedro Aurelio de Góes Monteiro, announced to an anxious nation that...
		MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1945: Brazil
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461503862/1945_Brazil.html (167 words)

	Brazil History - Brazilink
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		Historical Maps of South America: University of Alabama; Brazil from 16th to 17th centuries.
		Brazil Marks 40th Anniversary of Military Coup, Peter Kornbluh (Editor), The National Security Archives, 31 March 2004
	www.brazilink.org /history.asp (861 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Book Review - Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 - Daryle Williams
		Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945.
		Now Williams has gone beyond that to show how deliberate Vargas was in creating Brazil's modern national identity when he dispensed with democratic legislative processes and expanded and strengthened the federal government.
		This brilliant book will be highly controversial in Brazil and a catalyst for much future research and debate.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20010501fabook4812/daryle-williams/culture-wars-in-brazil-the-first-vargas-regime-1930-1945.html (288 words)

	About Brazil -Information Guide Bibliography
		Winter, Nevin O. Brazil and Her People of Today: An Account of the Customs, Characteristics, Amusements, History, and Advancement of the Brazilians, and the Development and Resources of Their Country.
		Miracle at Joaseiro: A Political and Economic History of a Popular Religious Movement in Brazil, 1889-1934.
		The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations.
	www.floridabrasil.com /brazil/about-brazil-bibliography.htm (7704 words)

	ScienceDaily: History of brazil 1930 1945
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		Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/history_of_brazil__1930_1945_ (789 words)

	Brazil : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
		Brazil : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/brtoc.html (155 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2001018769
		Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Brazil Politics and government 1930-1945, Politics and culture Brazil History 20th century, Brazil Cultural policy, Vargas, Getâulio, 1883-1954
		Table of contents for Culture wars in Brazil : the first Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 / Daryle Williams.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy036/2001018769.html (67 words)

	Hilton (1986) A rebelião vermelha
		Communism; Brazil; History; National security; Politics and government; 1930-1945.
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