Vargas e o Estado Novo (1937-1945)

Abstract

The Estado Novo emerged between 1937 and 1945, it was a dictatorship created by Getúlio Vargas and had support from the military. It had a strong nationalist, anticommunist influence and fascist ideals, the Constitution, at that time was created institutionally and was even nicknamed Polaca due to the laws of Poland, there was in that period Brazil's participation in World War II, as it had a debt of one loan granted by the United States, sent Brazilian soldiers to the Second World War to show that he was an “Allied”. The Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), with the emergence of the minimum wage and several state companies, not to mention the very strong propaganda in favor of the Getúlio government, through the (DIP) WHICH WAS the Department of Press and Propaganda at the time. Vargas reduced the power of the Judiciary and the Legislative and centralized the Executive, ordered the closure of Congress, a Brazilian dictatorial period that embraced a Constitution that consisted of fascism. It prohibited strikes and demonstrations, censored artists and the press, put intervenors in unions and also in the place of elected governors in the states, prohibited political parties, created stateowned companies, created the “Hour of Brazil”, to establish communication and advertisements of government policy. but in 1937, the coup was given with the allegation of a communist threat and thus Vargas managed to remain in power. During this period, the whole world lived under the dominion of fascism and Nazism ended up having great influence in Brazil and communism as well.