Topic 8: Contemporary Brazil (1945 - )

8.1 THE DEMOCRATIC INTERREGNUM

  • The constitution of 1946 and the conservative government of Dutra

  • Vargas` second presidency: challenge and suicide

  • The liberal democracy of Juscelino Kubitschek (the five-year development plan)

  • Jânio Quadros` short term and the issues about his vice-president João Goulart

  • Society and politics (the construction, contradictions and collapse of populism)

8.2 MILITARY DICTATORSHIP AND REPRESSION (1964 – 1985)

  • The military coup d’etat of 1964

  • The establishment of a republic of generals

  • Political and cultural repression

  • Society, cultural protest and other forms of opposition

  • The authoritarian modernization and the Brazilian economic miracle

8.3 THE DIFFICULT PATH TO DEMOCRACY (1986 – 2002)

  • Political opening and the end of the military dictatorship

  • The Nova Republica: from Sarney to Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  • From indirect to direct elections

  • The constitution of 1988

  • Plano Real: Social and economic effects

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