History of Brazil (1945-1964)

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	Brazil - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Brazil
		Brazil entered the war against Germany and Italy in August 1942, and in February 1943 declared adherence to the Atlantic Charter, extending the declaration of war to include Japan.
		Brazil protested against the German announcement of unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917, and the persistence of Germany in that policy led to the sinking of Brazilian ships in 1917.
		Brazil in World War II During the early years of World War II Brazil strengthened its defences, and Vargas took measures to counter pro-Axis propaganda and to renew economic and military ties with the USA.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Brazil (3404 words)

	Brazil Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research)
		Brazil is characterized by the extensive low-lying Amazon Rainforest in the north and a more open terrain of hills and low mountains to the south — home to most of Brazil's population and its agricultural base.
		In 1808, Queen Maria I of Portugal and her son and regent, the future João VI of Portugal, fleeing from Napoleon, relocated to Brazil with the royal family, nobles and government.
		In an official note, the Brazilian government condemned "vehemently" the attack.
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Brazil (4418 words)

	Encyclopedia :: History of Brazil
		From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Brazil was a colony of Portugal, exploited mainly for brazilwood at first, and later for sugarcane agriculture.
		Brazil was discovered by Europeans on January 26, 1500, by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, a Spaniard who had been a companion of Columbus.
		On September 7, 1822, the country declared its independence from Portugal and became a constitutional monarchy, the Empire of Brazil.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /History_of_Brazil (3276 words)

	Articles - Cold War
		The wartime cooperation was never friendly, and it became increasingly strained by February 1945 at the Yalta Conference, as it became increasingly clear that Stalin intended to seize control of most of Eastern Europe--especially those areas that had once been controlled by the Czars, together with eastern Germany.
		The Cold War period also simultaneously witnessed the largest arms race (both conventional and nuclear) in history, leading to widespread global fears of a World War III and a cataclysmic nuclear war.
		´´The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB´´ (1999)
	www.sewing-center.com /articles/Cold_War (5869 words)

	APS Publications
		A history of the early years of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the life and career of James Bowdoin, the Academy's first president, are given careful consideration by Frank and Fritzie Manuel.
		Karet's Drawings of Stefano da Verona is a significant addition to the history of drawing in the important transitional decades from the Late Gothic to the Renaissance.
		This study of Moluccan spices opens with their natural history and nomenclature, and the discovery of the Islands by Europeans near the opposing (and controversial)limits of Spanish and Portuguese jurisdiction.
	www.aps-pub.com /inprint.htm (9273 words)

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		History of Brazil Coral This captivating saga was initiated by an experiment using coral in steel manufacturing that yielded surprising results.
		History of Brazil World Facts Index > Brazil > History Page 2 MORE LIKE A CONTINENT than a country, the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil) is geographically...
	en.powerwissen.com /2iruLtbUOXN2MoAulpNTsg%3D%3D_Brazil_History.html (121 words)

	Reviews in History:
		Writing a survey of Brazilian history is to engage with many controversies - confronting analyses that present history as moments of abrupt change or `missed opportunities', as constant progress versus inertia, as ethnic diversity and a culture of tolerance against enduring inequity, poverty and violence.
		While Brazil survived as a single polity, in the face of the Balkanisation of other parts of Latin America, the transition from colony to nation (and the continuity of monarchy) was far from peaceful and unity far from inevitable.
		This said, one of the peculiarities of late colonial Brazil was the prevalence of the institution of slavery.
	www.history.ac.uk /reviews/paper/lewisColin.html (2077 words)

	History of Brazil
		His son declared Brazil's independence on September 7, 1822, and became emperor with the title of Dom Pedro I. His son, Dom Pedro II, ruled from 1831 to 1889, when a federal republic was established in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca, Marshal of the Army.
		Brazil completed its transition to a popularly elected government in 1989, when Fernando Collor de Mello won 53% of the vote in the first direct presidential election in 29 years.
		From 1889 to 1930, the government was a constitutional democracy, with the presidency alternating between the dominant states of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais.
	www.historyofnations.net /southamerica/brazil.html (644 words)

	Brazil History
		From 1945 until 1964 the Second Republic was in power.
		In 1865 Brazil became involved in a bloody five-year war with Paraguay.
		The Portuguese gained full control over the early part of the 17th century.
	www.multied.com /nationbynation/Brazil/History1.html (99 words)

	A BRIEF HISTORY OF BRAZIL
		Brazil was proclaimed a republic with official separation of church and state.
		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.
		Brazil sided with the Allies in World War II (1939-1945), again using increased world demand for raw materials to expand its economy.
	www.brazilbrazil.com /historia.html (2219 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)

	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)

	Brazil
		Brazil: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Archive of Latin Americana
		Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations between the U.S. and Brazil, 1910-1929 and Between Brazil and Other States, 1910-1929
		Records of the Department of State relating to political relations between Brazil and other states, 1910-29
	elibrary.unm.edu /subjects/LAWebGuide/EngMforms/Countries/Brazil.htm (420 words)

	KCL: Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Course Details
		The modern history of Brazil from the beginning of the Republic in 1889 to the present fulfilment of a transition to democracy, examines key moments and problems of citizenship, authoritarian rule, social issues, and reforms against the background of the legacies of the Colonial and Imperial periods.
		Michael L Conniff, Urban Politics in Brazil: The Rise of Populism, 1928-1945 (Pittsburgh: 1981)
		Ronald Schneider, The Political System of Brazil: Emergence of a “modernizing” Authoritarian Regime, 1964-1970 (New York: 1971)
	www.kcl.ac.uk /pobrst/hs13.html (318 words)

	H-Net Review: Shawn Smallman on Brazilian Party Politics and the Coup of 1964
		Ollie Andrew Johnson III's new work provides a revisionist account of Brazil's political history from 1945 to 1964, with a focus on party politics.
		The 1964 coup was not only one of the most important events in twentieth century Brazilian history, but also one of the most difficult to explain.
		117-120) and the weakness of the Brazilian political system, but Johnson believes that this is a mistake: "The political and regime crises of 1964 were more responses to political realignment than consequences of economic development and crisis, poor leadership, political chaos, corruption, fragmentation and paralysis" (p.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=70361011805578 (1258 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Brazil
		Brazil has been a republic since 1889, but democratic government was suspended during the dictatorship of GetÃºlio Vargas from 1937 to 1945 and during military rule under a series of presidents from 1964 until 1985.
		Brazilâs history can be divided into two major parts: the colonial period from the arrival of the first Portuguese explorers in 1500 until independence in 1822, and the national period since independence from Portugal.
		Brazilâs first census, in 1872, recorded a population of 9,930,478; by 1900 the population was just over 17 million.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761554342__1/Brazil.html (1258 words)

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		Employed by U.S. Army, 1945-1947, 1951- 1953; Tennessee Valley Authority, 1953-1964; editor, report writer, 1964-1967; planner, supervisor of scheduling and records, National Fertilizer Development Center, 1967.
		Member: U.S. National commission, UNESCO and United Nations Public Administration Mission to Brazil; U.S. Department of State Specialist in nine foreign countries; and consultant to the Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Civil Defense Administration, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, and Ford Foundation; Social Science Council Research professor during 1959-1960.
		Employed: University of Alabama, 1931-1975; free-lance writer, 1975; managing editor, Alabama Review, 1947-1963; Publications of the American Dialect Society, 1964; editoral board, American Speech, National University Extension News, College Composition and Communication, Dictionary of American Regional English, Abstracts of English Studies and Harcourt-Brace School Dictionary.
	www.lib.auburn.edu /madd/docs/ala_authors/m.html (1258 words)

	DeRLAS Vol 3 No 2 Magalhaes
		I give the 1945 Brazilian military a score of two (2) on the scale because the coups attempted in Brazil were successful but the history of coups is much less extensive in Brazil than in other countries in Latin America.
		The second case is the period leading up to the military coup that ousted President Goulart in 1964 and the third case is the tumultuous period in the second half of 1992 during which the corruption of the Collor administration was revealed and the president’s eventual impeachment by the Câmara de Deputados occurred.
		The opposite of an apolitical military is a praetorian, or politicized, one (Huntington 1968, 192-263; Nordlinger 1977, 2-3; Perlmutter 1977, 11-13, 89- 114).
	www.udel.edu /LASP/Vol3-2Magalhaes.html (1258 words)

	Sports 123: Football Teams: Brazil
		palmares: Pernambuco State Championship (21x): 1934, 1939, 1945, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1984, 1985, 1989, 2001, 2002, 2004
		history: founded in 1909 as Paulista, in 1999 renamed to Etti Jundiaí, in 2002 renamed to Jundiaí, in 2003 renamed back to Paulista
		palmares: Santa Catarina State Championship (12x): 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1973, 1975, 1988, 1997
	sports123.com /teams/foo-bra2.html (402 words)

	Sports 123: Football Teams: Brazil
		palmares: Brazilian Championship (1x): 1984; Rio de Janeiro State Championship (29x): 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1951, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1995, 2002
		palmares: Copa Libertadores (1x): 1998; Copa Mercosur (1x): 2000; Brazilian Championship (4x): 1974, 1989, 1997, 2000; Rio de Janeiro State Championship (21x): 1923, 1924, 1929, 1934, 1936, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003
		palmares: Copa Conmebol (1x): 1993; Brazilian Championship (1x): 1995; Rio de Janeiro State Championship (16x): 1907, 1910, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1948, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1989, 1990, 1997
	sports123.com /teams/foo-bra.html (402 words)

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