Brazil (Axis vs Allies R-Word 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 worlds most rapidly increasing militaries and most dynamic economies, Brazil is one of the Worlds Major powers and maintains a large scale influence, and a wide array of Trade friends and buisiness associates which have allowed for Brazils 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.

However in 1933-1934 Vargas managed to push his way through to acquire foreign investment in the expansion of Brazils 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 Brazils Job base, and the militarization of Brazil led to massive job increases, industrial expansion on par with Germanies rapid industrialization in its beginnings, and a resource development which allowed for much of Brazils previously import economy to do a completely turn around and replace certain major powers good 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's blatant Facism. Vargas while very unhappy with this has allowed more Democratic policies to push through into Brazils government

Military
The Brazilian military is the main force which is used in the defense of Brazil. With a strength of nearly 800,000 and possible expansion, Brazil in the mid to late 30's had undergone a major modernization and rearmament program by retooling its economy to a major degree.

Navy:

3 Battleships

2 Fleet Carriers

40 destroyers

23 Frigates

12 cruisers

(alot more to come)