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Brazil was also financially compensated by Germany for the lost coffee shipments and ships that were sunk by German U-boats during the war. [ citation needed ] From an economic point of view, although exports of latex and coffee initially fell sharply and created a crisis in the economy as the conflict continued, Brazil eventually began to find ...
Imperialism before World War I had been on the rise since the mid-nineteenth century because industrialization had caused a growing need for natural resources. Regions like Africa and India had been settled by European countries in order to make profit and extend power. [2]
There were two main lines of thought regarding Brazil's joining the war: One, led by Ruy Barbosa, called for joining the Entente; [11] another side was concerned about the bloody and fruitless nature of trench warfare, nurturing critical and pacifist feelings in the urban worker classes. Therefore, Brazil remained neutral in World War I until 1917.
Texas published a map claiming the Rio Grande as its border with Mexico and not the Nueces River, the border since the Spanish colonial era. [5] The Mexican Congress rejected the Treaties of Velasco signed by Antonio López de Santa Anna , arguing that Santa Anna had no authority to grant independence to Texas.
Mexico [1] [2] was a neutral country in World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918.The war broke out in Europe in August 1914 as the Mexican Revolution was in the midst of full-scale civil war between factions that had helped oust General Victoriano Huerta from the presidency earlier that year.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
A 17th-century Dutch map of the Americas Indigenous Mexican depiction of smallpox, one of the diseases that devastated populations with no resistance. The Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire ruled much of the New World from the early sixteenth century until the early nineteenth, when Spanish America and Brazil gained their independence ...
Brazil: Bahia Republic Loyalist victory. Revolt suppressed. Platine War (1851–1852) Brazil Defense Government Entre Ríos Corrientes Santa Fe Argentina Cerrito Government Federalists: Victory. End of Juan Manuel de Rosas' government; Emergence of Brazil as the hegemonic power in the Platine region. Uruguayan War (1864–1865) Brazil Colorados ...