The Trench Warfare (1915-1917) consisted of the phase of the First World War when this military tactic was widely used. What happened? The Trench War lasted two years and was the longest period of the conflict. As the armies of the Allies and the Central Powers had very balanced forces, the soluti
The Barão do Rio Branco was a Brazilian journalist, politician and diplomat. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil from 1902 to 1912. He went down in Brazilian history for having resolved important border issues with Argentina, France and Bolivia. After all, it incorporated 900,000 km into
Arthur Bernardes was the 12th President of the Republic during the period of the Old Republic (1889-1930), and ruled the country from 1922 to 1926. He was part of the coffee au lait policy , led by the oligarchies of the states of São Paulo (a large producer of coffee) and Minas Gerais (a large pr
The Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 , Revolution of 1932 or Guerra Paulista was the first major uprising against the administration of Getúlio Vargas and also the last major armed conflict that took place in Brazil. The elites of São Paulo sought to regain the political command they had lost w