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Brazil's leaders in the 1920s and 1930s decided that Argentina's implicit foreign policy goal was to isolate Portuguese-speaking Brazil from Spanish-speaking neighbours, thus facilitating the expansion of Argentine economic and political influence in South America.
Brazil sign the Pan-American Treaty. [177] The Brazilian Society of Chemistry is founded. Brazil's first radio broadcasting station, the Radio Society of Rio de Janeiro, is founded; it is still working under the name Rádio MEC. 1924: 5–28 July: Military revolt in São Paulo. [178] 1925: 12 April
Brazil, [b] officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, [c] is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and one of the most populated countries. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo.
The community of descendants also contributed to the Museum of Immigration, also located in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, to present the history of U.S. immigration to Brazil. [14] The American immigrants introduced into their new home many new foods, such as pecans, Georgia peanuts and watermelon; new tools such as the iron plow and kerosene lamps ...
"Brazil is, next to ourselves, the great power on the American continent", affirmed James Watson Webb, the US minister to Brazil, in 1867. [184] The Empire's rise was noticed as early as 1844 by John C. Calhoun , the US Secretary of State: "Next to the United States, Brazil is the most wealthy, the greatest and the most firmly established of ...
The history of the Old Republic was dominated by a quest for a viable form of government to replace the monarchy. This quest lurched back and forth between state autonomy and centralization. The constitution of 1891, establishing the United States of Brazil (Estados Unidos do Brasil), granted extensive autonomy to the provinces, now called ...
Unlike Spanish America, which fragmented into many republics upon independence, Brazil remained a single administrative unit under a monarch as the Empire of Brazil, giving rise to the largest country in Latin America. Just as Spanish and Roman Catholicism were a core source of cohesion among Spain's vast and multi-ethnic territories, Brazilian ...
The Americanization of Brazil: A study of US Cold War diplomacy in the third world, 1945-1954 (1989). Hilton, Stanley E. "The United States, Brazil, and the Cold War, 1945-1960: end of the special relationship." Journal of American History 68.3 (1981): 599–624. online; Long, Tom.