Getulio Dornelles Vargas established his dictatorship in Brazil in
1937, and from 1938 through 1940 American diplomats and military
planners were preoccupied with the possibility that Brazil might
ally herself with Nazi Germany. Such an alliance would have made
fortress America vulnerable and closed the South Atlantic to Allied
shipping. Fortunately for America, Brazil eventually joined the
Allies and American engineers turned Northeast Brazil into a vast
springboard for supplies for the war fronts. Frank D. McCann has
used previously inaccessible Brazilian archival material to discuss
the events during the Vargas regime which brought about a close
alliance between Brazil and the United States and resulted in
Brazil's economic, political, and military dependence on her
powerful North American ally. He shows that until 1940 the drive
for closer union came largely from Brazil, which wanted to offset
the shifting alliances of the Spanish-speaking countries and escape
from British economic domination. American interest in Brazil
increased during the 1930's as the U.S. turned to Latin America to
recoup losses in foreign trade and as Washington began to fear that
Nazism and Fascism would spread to South America. By 1940 the
nature of Brazil's relationship with the United States made it
impossible for Brazil to remain neutral. Frank McCann's analysis of
Brazil's decision to join the Allies affords a view of the
diplomatic uses of economic and military aid, which became a
feature of diplomacy in the postwar years. It also provides
insights into the military's influence on foreign policy, and into
the functioning of Vargas' Estado Novo. Originally published in
1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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