The March of Time: South American Front — 1944

English / 17min. / 1944

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Ventures beyond the Copacabana beach to explain how Brazil – rich in minerals, oil and rubber and strategically vital for access to Africa, and at the time under the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas – was wooed by the USA’s ‘Good Neighbor Policy’ and came to join the Allies during World War II.

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