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A 5 page research paper that examines the social and political climate of Argentina in the 1930s and 40s. The writer describes how the promise of democracy disappeared in Argentina at the beginning of the Great Depression and discusses the political and social factors that continued to thwart democratic reform for the next several decades. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: KE9_99artina.rtf
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At that time, Argentina appeared to have all of the preconditions for a stable democracy (Goldwert xi). However, the revolution of 1930 unleashed a plague of modern militarism and
chronic instability on the country (Goldwert xi). Between 1930 and 1966, the Argentine armed forces have overthrown the government five times (Goldwert xi). An examination of Argentine history reveals the
factors that created this unstable political and social atmosphere. When the Great Depression engulfed Argentina, the country was enjoying the most democratic period in its history. For the first
time, the government was headed by a representative of the middle class, President Hipolito Irigoyen (Alexander 3). His regime had wide support among the middle class, particularly in Buenos Aires
and the provincial cities, but it also enjoyed support among the working class as well (Alexander 3). The workers that did not vote for Irigoyens party (the Radicals) voted Socialist.
At this time the Socialist Party was frequently controlled by the city council of Buenos Aires (Alexander 3). Irigoyen was reelected in 1928 on the eve of what was
to be a world-wide catastrophe, the Great Depression, which hit Argentina extremely hard. The depression, combined with the fact that the Radical regime became increasingly corrupt, set the stage for
the Army revolt that occurred in September, 1930 (Alexander 3). A predecessor of the 1943 coup, this revolt was the work of Argentine Army leaders who engineered the coup in
cooperation with the Conservative, or National Democratic, Party (Alexander 4). Traditionally, the Conservative party had served as the spokesman for the landed class and the Church hierarchy (Alexander 4).
The revolutionaries picked General Jose f. Uriburu to serve as president, and two years later, elections, in which the Radical Party was not allowed to participate, installed General Augustin
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