Great South American War (Yellowstone: 1936)



The Great South American War, or also known as the Great War, was the pinnacle of the Argentine-Brazilian Cold war in which the Argentinian, and Brazilian Spheres of influence came into full conflict with eachother. Following decades of issues between the two countries and Argentinas ever growing fascist government. When Brazils main oil supplier, Venezeula, had its main oil derricks destroyed by a Radical political group, the Nation was pushed into a major issue in which its economy was comming close to not being able to run.

With this the Argentinians seeing Brazils percieved vulnerability rallied its allies and began a full scale war throughout the continent to wipe out Brazilian influence for good. The War began in January of 1986 and ended in March of 1987 and formally ended most if not all hostilities between the two Blocs and was the first known usage of the new Kinetic Weapons system.

Causes
The War had a myriad of causes most of which deal with the conflicting influences between Argentina and Brazil. With the mutual ban on developing any Nuclear weapons and the concurrent advancements in new conventional technologies, the Two nations had essentially embarked on a new conventional arms race which increased tensions significantly between both nations.

By 1985 the Brazilians were beginning to gain the upper hand against the Argentinians with New Brazilian Main Battle Tank, outperforming most if not all of the Argentinian counterparts. By 1986 however this became irrelavent with the Venezuelan oil production being crippled and Brazils ability to use its armored vehicles essentially cut by 50 to 60%

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