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urbanization
- the movement of people from rural to urban areas
- brought about changes that altered relationships between the classes and btw men and women
- women entered the public political and economic arenas
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populism
- comprised of cross-class alliances brought together by a charismatic leader advocating social reform
- dominated the politics of the era
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Getulio Vargas
- Brazil 1930-45
- dictator in Brazil that had to ally with provincial and state political bosses, who obtained the support of the people of the countryside by defending local customs and traditions
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Juan Peron
- Argentina 1946-55
- dictator in Argentina that had to ally with provincial and state political
- bosses, who obtained the support of the people of the countryside by defending local customs and traditions
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The Great Depression
- 1928 - 1932
- after WW1 export prices tumbled by more than half in 10 countries
- this left the Latin American economies in ruin
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World War II
- the economy had an even more devastating effect than WWI and The Great Depression
- war time inflation eroded real wages and purchasing power
- LAtin American nations accumulated huge reserves from the sale of exports during the war, which led to inflation
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import substitrution industrialization (ISI)
- policy adopted by some Latin American countries that sought to industrialize but not rely on imported materials
- however this idea was extremely flawed because industry relies on imported materials found in other countries
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women's suffrage
- sought the right to vote, and better working, sanitary, and helth conditions for all
- "free" women were sexually active and ciarette smokers, which was very different than the passive mother of old
- did not achieve equality in law until 1930
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