Há algo de novo no front: a participação do Brasil na Segunda Guerra Mundial

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Luciana Ibarra dos
• Orientador(a): Brancato, Sandra Maria Lubisco
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: BRASIL - HISTÓRIA; GUERRA MUNDIAL II, 1939-1945 - BRASIL; FORÇA EXPEDICIONARIA BRASILEIRA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3878

This work presents a historical reflection that covers new systems in order to explai the participation of Brazil in the II worl War. We are taking into consideration that, in every sequence of events, there is an inner mixture of finality and causality, and this way we have articulated one concept to the other, from mechanisms related to the Brazilian national structure. These ideas are set from Jean Baptiste Duroselle’s theoretical formulations, in his work Todo Império Perecerá. The national strcture established in Brazil from 1930 on, made it possible for the nationalism and authoritarism to be presented as complementary politics to form the new national structure of the Brazilian State. Therefore, the ruler’s decisions (finality), made independently from the people’s opinion, followed the politicl-ideological orientations of an organized project. The Causality System, on its side, released forces devices that urged the country to the war. The Brazilian people suffered the pulsion force because of the attacks to the Brazilian merchant ships, and a feeling of revenge was increased by the campaign to set Brazil into the War, which was organized by the federal government of the period, as a pression force, by creating specific devices for its ideologic spread –Departamento de Imprensa e Propaganda (DIP), for example – the government was able to convey the image of the New State, and, from 1942 on, mobilize the country in favor of the war and make the Brazilian society aware of the nation participation in the II World War acclaiming this position in the Cultura Política Magazine, in its extraordinary edition, “O Brasil na Guerra” (“Brazil in the War”), from August, 1943. The Expeditionary Brazilian Force (FEB) – a specific real group when in the war front, suffered not only the pressions and pulsions of the nation, but also a psychological war, through leaflets thrownt to the Brazilian soldiers, which were written in Portuguese, where the enemies tried to strengthen the “moral” of their soldiers, decrease the Brazilian’s “moral” and cause a good impression to the impartial ones.