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  title info:
    title: Brazil and the United States during World War II and Its Aftermath
    sub title: Negotiating Alliance and Balancing Giants
  name:
    name part: McCann, Frank D.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 318 p. 18 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The military alliance between the United States and Brazil played a critical role in the outcome of World War II, and yet it is largely overlooked in historiography of the war. In this definitive account, Frank McCann investigates Brazilian-American military relations from the 1930s through the years after the alliance ended in 1977. The two countries emerge as imbalanced giants with often divergent objectives and expectations. They nevertheless managed to form the Brazilian Expeditionary Force and a fighter squadron that fought in Italy under American command, making Brazil the only Latin American country to commit troops to the war. With the establishment of the US Air Force base in Natal, Northeast Brazil become a vital staging area for air traffic supplying Allied forces in the Middle East and Asian theaters. McCann deftly analyzes newly opened Brazilian archives and declassified American intelligence files to offer a more nuanced account of how this alliance changed the course of World War II, and how the relationship deteriorated in the aftermath of the war.
  table of contents: 1. A Relationship of Unbalanced Giants -- 2. Pre-war Fears and Explorations -- 3. Search for Mutual Benefits -- 4. Brazil's Options Narrow -- 5. Decision to Fight -- 6. The Brazilian Expeditionary Force: The Smoking Cobras -- 7. Post-World War Disappointment -- 8. Cold Wind from the East.
  note: by Frank D. McCann.
  subject:
    topic: Latin America-History
  subject:
    topic: America-History
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    topic: World politics
  subject:
    topic: Diplomacy
  subject:
    topic: Latin American History
  subject:
    topic: History of the Americas
  subject:
    topic: History of World War II and the Holocaust
  subject:
    topic: Political History
  subject:
    topic: Diplomacy
  classification: F1409.6-1414.2
  classification: 980
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319929101
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92910-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 180824
    record change date: 20191028232449.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-92910-1