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The United States was, in 1824, the second country to recognize the independence of Brazil, after Argentina did it in 1823. [1] Brazil was the only South American nation to send troops to fight in Europe alongside the Allies in World War II.
In subsequent years American forces regularly invaded and intervened in Cuba, with the U.S. military occupying Cuba again from 1906–1909, and U.S. marines being sent to Cuba from 1917–1922 to protect American-owned sugar plantations.
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
This is a list of wars involving the Federative Republic of Brazil and its predecessor states, from 1815 to the present day. United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and ...
Military relations between the United States and Brazil date back to World War II, when Brazil supported the Allied effort in the invasion of Italy in 1942. Brazil provided troops for the invasion. [2] On January 3, 1952, The Brazilian government issued decree 30363 establishing new government regulations. [3]
The American public in general knew little about Brazil, and the events in Panama in 1964 and in the Dominican Republic the following year had more resonance than the Brazilian coup. The government saw "a continental country, populous, with significant economic possibilities, but militarily unimportant". [ 57 ]
American planners feared the vulnerability of Brazilian defenses in the northeast and the country as a whole. [6] A Department of War analysis in January 1939 found the coastal cities to be "almost completely defenseless", and air defense did not exist, not even in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
As noted in unpublished research, Betty Antunes de Oliveira found in port records of Rio de Janeiro that some 20,000 Americans entered Brazil from 1865 to 1885. Other researchers have estimated the number at 10,000. [ 1 ]