Brazil (Axis vs Allies Resurrection Map Game)

Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil), officially the Republic of the United States of Brazil, is the largest country and the only Portuguese-speaking country in South America. With a population of over 40 million and increasing rapidly, as well as one of the world's most rapidly increasing militaries and most dynamic economies, Brazil is one of the World's Rising powers and maintains a large scale developing influence over South America, and a wide array of Trade friends and business associates which have allowed for Brazil's development as a major world power.

Great Depression
The tenente rebellion did not mark the revolutionary breakthrough of Brazil's bourgeois social reformers. But the ruling paulista coffee oligarchy could not withstand the near-breakdown of world capitalism in 1929. Brazil's vulnerability to the Great Depression had its roots in the economy's heavy dependence on foreign markets and loans. Despite limited industrial development in São Paulo, the export of coffee and other primary products was still the mainstay of the economy. Days after the U.S. stock market crash on October 29, 1929, coffee quotations immediately fell 30% to 60%. The subsequent decline was even sharper. Between 1929 and 1931, coffee prices fell from 22.5 cents per pound to 8 cents per pound. As world trade contracted, the coffee exporters suffered a vast drop in foreign exchange earnings. The Great Depression possibly had a more dramatic effect on Brazil than on the United States.

With the power of Vargas solidified, the industrial Development of Brazil took a drastic turn that alienated many of the upper echelons of Brazilian society. However with communists and nationalists openly fighting in the streets the new constitution authored by Brazilian legislators brought about a relative halt to much backlash that Vargas might have suffered. He managed to bring about a much more stable transition into a constitutional government while also holding onto power as the president. His various purchases, debt spending, and his major projects helped employ tens of thousands of unemployed Brazilians as well as begin the long overdue settlement of the Brazilian amazons.

However in 1933-1937, Vargas managed to push his way through to acquire foreign investment in the expansion of Brazil's industry, internal development, and a fully expansive program to continue the development as well as expand internal resource extraction. Alongside this, powerful internal development incentives, the use of deficit spending the rebuild Brazil's Job base, and the militarization of Brazil led to massive job increases, industrial expansion on par with Germany's rapid industrialization in its beginnings, and a resource development which allowed for much of Brazil's previously import economy to do a complete turn around and replace certain major goods on the market. Brazil major re-rise to power did, however, begin its turn back to a more powerful form of Democracy rather than Vargas' blatant Fascism. Vargas, while very unhappy with this, has allowed more Democratic policies to push through into Brazil's government

History and Recent Changes
On November 15, 1889 Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca deposed Emperor Dom Pedro II, declared Brazil a republic, and reorganized the government. In reality, the elections were rigged, voters in rural areas were pressured or induce to vote for the chosen candidates of their bosses (see coronelismo) and, if all those methods did not work, the election results could still be changed by one sided decisions of Congress's verification of powers commission (election authorities in the República Velha were not independent from the executive and the Legislature, dominated by the ruling oligarchs). This system resulted in the presidency of Brazil alternating between the oligarchies of the dominant states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais. This regime is often referred to as "café com leite", 'coffee with milk', after the respective agricultural products of the two states. This period ended with a military coup that placed Getúlio Vargas, a civilian, in the presidency.