Getulio Vargas
Brazilian President during the Great Depression
Created the Estado Novo: Authorian Government, increased steel production, celebrated race mixing
ISI
Import-substitution Industrialization
Less exports so Latin America Industrial production increased
Bastilla-style activism: Set wages, prices, regulate production levels, manipulate exchange rates, labor laws
More Light Industry
Batllismo
reform movement in Uruguay
economic nationalism, against foreign economic imperialism, gov control on economy
Good Neighbor POlicy
Created by FDR
Latin America and US were Allies and no military control
Diego Rivera
Illustrated the Mexican revolution and Mexican identity
made murals
Frida Kahlo
Illiterate the Mexican revolution
self portraits, personal nationalism → Mexican folk art and indigenous themes
WW2 and Latin America
Latin Industries bloomed: ISI
RB Bennett
conservative party
PM of Canada after King
Bennett’s New Deal → just like the US’s New deal
Conservative party didn’t like
Good Friends with FDR
Mackenzie King
Liberal Party
PM of Canada in the beginning of the Great depression.
Created the British North American Act: More power to Individual Provences → didn’t work
Became the PM after Bennett again
On-to-Ottawa Trek
People were traveling to find work
Run by the military → very strict
Communist party inacted workplace riots
Bennett Borough → huge riot
Hockey
Form of escapism
Became popular through Radio Broadcasts → Cornerstone of Canadian culture
Royal twenty centers
a nationwide system of camps to house and provide work for single, unemployed, homeless Canadian males
William “Bible Bill” Aberhart
Canadian politician
Spread the bible through the radio
actually controlled a Provence