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The United Kingdom had a strong economic influence in Argentina during the Victorian period. [3] However the position of English Argentines was complicated when their economic influence was finally eroded by Juan Perón's nationalisation of many British-owned companies in the 1940s and then by the Falklands War in 1982.
During the First World War, under President Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentina adopted the policy known as "benevolent neutrality", under which Argentina remained a non-belligerent party throughout the conflict, but provided generous economic assistance to the Allies in the form of interest-free loans, particularly to Britain and France, becoming an ...
The many British schools in Argentina, [27] played a role in shaping public opinion on the debate regarding the nature of England and Argentina's partnership in the early twentieth century. [28] The term "imperialist" was framed as a positive term that could be used as another way to describe democracy or liberty, and as a result, the Argentine ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a timeline of Argentine history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Argentina and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Argentina. See also the ...
The Land that England lost: Argentina and Britain, a special relationship (IB Tauris, 1992). Humphreys, R.A. "British Merchants and South American Independence," Proceedings of the British Academy (1965), Vol. 51, pp 151–174 online free. Hyam, Ronald. Britain's Imperial Century 1815–1914: A Study of Empire and Expansion (3rd ed. 2002)
As from 1 March 1948 the remaining British-owned railway companies in Argentina also became the property of the government. These were the four broad gauge companies: BA Great Southern , Central Argentine , BA & Pacific and the BA Western ; the standard gauge companies Entre Ríos and Argentine North Eastern ; and the Buenos Aires Midland ...
The Central Bank was a private entity and British interests held a majority of its stake; the president of the Central Bank was appointed by the president of Argentina, but only 5 of its 12 directors were Argentine and the were majority private-bank executives. In addition, foreign banks regulated credit in Argentina and controlled the ...
The Arana–Southern Treaty (Spanish: Tratado Arana-Southern) or Convention of Settlement, formally known as the Convention for the perfect restoration of friendly relations between the Argentine Confederation and Her Britannic Majesty, was a peace treaty signed between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Argentine Confederation following the Anglo-French blockade of the ...