Brazilian History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Jânio Quadros with the correct year: In ______, Quadros resigned in order to run for governor of the State of São Paulo.
  2. Complete the sentence about João Goulart with the correct year: Goulart was born at Yguariaçá Farm, in Itacurubi, São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, on 1 March ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about João Goulart with the correct year: João attended first to fourth grade at the Santana boarding school, but failed the fifth grade in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about 1964 Brazilian coup d'état with the correct year: The ______ election installed Jânio Quadros as president, supported by the UDN but positioning himself above the parties…
  5. Complete the sentence about Brazilian military dictatorship with the correct year: The military regime, particularly after the Institutional Act No. 5 of ______, practiced extensive censorship and com…
  6. Complete the sentence about Brazilian military dictatorship with the correct year: Despite initial pledges to the contrary, the regime enacted a new, restrictive Constitution in ______, and stifled fr…
  7. Complete the sentence about Brazilian military dictatorship with the correct year: João Figueiredo became president in March ______; the same year, he passed the Amnesty Law for political crimes commi…
  8. Complete the sentence about Brazilian military dictatorship with the correct year: Amid massive popular demonstrations on the streets of Brazil's biggest cities, the first free elections in 20 years w…
  9. Complete the sentence about Brazilian military dictatorship with the correct year: In ______, a new Constitution passed and Brazil officially returned to democracy.
  10. Complete the sentence about Costa e Silva with the correct year: Costa e Silva was born in Taquari in Rio Grande do Sul state on 3 October ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Costa e Silva with the correct year: By the end of ______ he actively participated in the plot that overthrew Goulart, who was accused of aligning with Communists during th…
  12. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The constitutional amendment came into force on January 1, ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about João Figueiredo with the correct year: On September 22, ______, he was awarded Portugal's Grand Collar of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword.
  14. Complete the sentence about João Figueiredo with the correct year: In ______, the Diretas Já movement pushed for direct presidential elections, but the proposal was rejected by Congress.
  15. Complete the sentence about João Figueiredo with the correct year: João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo was born in Rio de Janeiro at 11:30 BRT on 15 January ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about João Figueiredo with the correct year: In ______ he was transferred to the National Security Council.
  17. Complete the sentence about João Figueiredo with the correct year: In ______ he assumed the command of public defense force in São Paulo.
  18. Complete the sentence about Diretas Já with the correct year: The first public protest for the Diretas occurred in the emancipated town of Abreu e Lima, in Pernambuco, on March 31, ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Diretas Já with the correct year: During April ______, President Figueiredo increased press censorship and promoted arrests and police violence.
  20. Complete the sentence about Tancredo Neves with the correct year: In ______, Neves was elected congressman and served for one year.
  21. Complete the sentence about José Sarney with the correct year: During the Brazilian military dictatorship, Sarney affiliated himself with the government party, ARENA, becoming the president of the par…
  22. Complete the sentence about Fernando Collor de Mello with the correct year: Fernando Collor was born on 12 August ______, to Leda Collor and Arnon Afonso de Farias Mello, in a very affluent and politi…
  23. Complete the sentence about Itamar Franco with the correct year: Previously, he was the 21st vice president of Brazil from ______ until the resignation of President Fernando Collor de Mello.
  24. Complete the sentence about Itamar Franco with the correct year: At the time of his death he was a senator from Minas Gerais, having won the seat in the ______ election.
  25. Complete the sentence about Itamar Franco with the correct year: On Tuesday, 29 September ______, Collor was charged with corruption and was impeached by the Congress.
  26. Complete the sentence about Fernando Henrique Cardoso with the correct year: In ______, Cardoso was selected by the British magazine Prospect as being one of the world's top one hundred living public…
  27. Complete the sentence about Fernando Henrique Cardoso with the correct year: In ______, he received the title of Cathedratic Professor, holding the chair of Political Science at Universidade de São Pa…
  28. Complete the sentence about Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with the correct year: Lula was one of the leaders of the ______ Diretas Já movement, which demanded direct elections.
  29. Complete the sentence about Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with the correct year: In ______, he was elected a federal deputy in the state of São Paulo.
  30. Complete the sentence about Dilma Rousseff with the correct year: After the ______ coup d'état she joined left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship.
  31. Complete the sentence about Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff with the correct year: Temer was accused by an Odebrecht executive of soliciting campaign donations in ______ for his party.
  32. Complete the sentence about Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff with the correct year: More than one million Brazilians protested in the streets in March ______ calling for Rousseff's impeachment.
  33. Complete the sentence about Michel Temer with the correct year: A ______ poll showed that Temer's administration had 7% popular approval, with 76% of respondents in favor of his resignation.
  34. Complete the sentence about Michel Temer with the correct year: Born in Tietê, São Paulo, Temer is the son of Nakhoul "Miguel" Elias Temer Lulia and March Barbar Lulia, Maronite Catholic Lebanese immi…
  35. Complete the sentence about Michel Temer with the correct year: In ______, he moved to São Paulo to finish high school in the "curso clássico", composed mainly of subjects in the humanities and langua…
  36. Complete the sentence about Jair Bolsonaro with the correct year: In ______, he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a representative for the state of Rio de Janeiro.
  37. Complete the sentence about Operation Car Wash with the correct year: In ______, the STF reverted its ruling, and decided that prison sentences only take effect in Brazil after all possible appeals to…
  38. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Brazil with the correct year: The Federal Constitution of ______ is criticized in the doctrine for being very extensive, long-winded, and analytical.
  39. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Brazil with the correct year: In ______, more than 40% of prisoners in Brazil were provisional.
  40. Complete the sentence about Federal Senate with the correct year: Following Brazil's independence, in ______, Emperor Pedro I summoned the Legislative and Constituent General Assembly to draft the cou…
  41. Complete the sentence about Supreme Federal Court with the correct year: The Constitution of ______ provided that the court would have 15 members.
  42. Complete the sentence about President of Brazil with the correct year: The presidential system was established in ______, upon the proclamation of the republic in a military coup d'état against Empero…
  43. Complete the sentence about President of Brazil with the correct year: The possibility of reelection was established by the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Workers' Party with the correct year: After the ______ parliamentary election, PT became the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies and the largest in the Federal Senate…
  45. Complete the sentence about Workers' Party with the correct year: PT was officially recognized as a party by the Brazilian Supreme Electoral Court on February 11, ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Social Democracy Party with the correct year: On 21 April ______, President-elect Tancredo Neves died, having been the last President not elected directly by the…
  47. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Social Democracy Party with the correct year: With the formation of new parties, including the PSDB, a National Constitutional Assembly was created and drafted th…
  48. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Armed Forces with the correct year: South America is a relatively peaceful continent in which wars are a rare event; as a result, Brazil has not had its territory…
  49. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Armed Forces with the correct year: Since ______ the Brazilian Armed Forces have been relied upon to fight in defense of Brazilian sovereignty and to suppress civ…
  50. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Air Force with the correct year: The first aerial activity occurred only on January 4, ______, when a training flight followed the course of the Iguaçú River to t…
  51. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Air Force with the correct year: The following week, on February 25, ______, a Morane-Saulnier had an accident.
  52. Complete the sentence about Mercosur with the correct year: In ______, in the middle of the Second World War, Brazil and Argentina for the first time tried to create a Customs Union between their econ…
  53. Complete the sentence about BRICS with the correct year: BRIC was originally a term coined by British economist Jim O'Neill, and later championed by his employer Goldman Sachs in ______, to designate…
  54. Complete the sentence about Organization of American States with the correct year: As of November ______, 32 states in the Americas are OAS members.
  55. Complete the sentence about Organization of American States with the correct year: The Pan American Union Building was constructed in ______, on Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
  56. Complete the sentence about Organization of American States with the correct year: At the ______ OAS convention in Montevideo, member states agreed to not recognize territorial acquisitions obtained b…
  57. Complete the sentence about Organization of American States with the correct year: At the ______ convention in Buenos Aires, member states agreed to enter into a process of arbitration in case there w…
  58. Complete the sentence about Union of South American Nations with the correct year: The UNASUR Constitutive Treaty was signed on 23 May ______, at the Third Summit of Heads of State, held in Brasília…
  59. Complete the sentence about Union of South American Nations with the correct year: On 1 December ______, Uruguay became the ninth state to ratify the UNASUR treaty, thus giving the union full legality…
  60. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 10 March ______, Uruguay officially announced its withdrawal from the organization.
  61. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Tordesillas with the correct year: By ______, Portuguese explorers had reached the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope.
  62. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Tordesillas with the correct year: Castile gained lands including most of the Americas, which in ______ had little proven wealth.
  63. Complete the sentence about Economy of Brazil with the correct year: In ______, according to Forbes, Brazil was the 7th largest country in the world by number of billionaires.
  64. Complete the sentence about B3 with the correct year: In ______, the Exchange demutualized and became a for-profit company.
  65. Complete the sentence about Petrobras with the correct year: Petrobras had begun processing oil shale in ______, developing the Petrosix technology for extracting oil from oil shale.
  66. Complete the sentence about Petrobras with the correct year: In ______, Petrobras put the Petrobras 36, the world's largest oil platform, into service.
  67. Complete the sentence about Petrobras with the correct year: In ______, the National Petroleum Agency signed agreements with other companies, ending the company's monopoly.
  68. Complete the sentence about Petrobras with the correct year: In ______, Petrobras announced a joint venture with Nippon Alcohol Hanbai KK to sell Brazilian ethanol to Japan, called Brazil-Japan Ethano…
  69. Complete the sentence about Embraer with the correct year: Embraer was founded on August 19, ______ by Ozires Silva and funded by the Brazilian government with the aim of creating a national champion…
  70. Complete the sentence about Barão do Rio Branco with the correct year: In ______, he replaced for three months Joaquim Manuel de Macedo as lecturer of Chorography and History of Brazil, in Colégio Ped…
  71. Complete the sentence about Barão do Rio Branco with the correct year: In his last moments of life, he lamented the bombing of the capital of Bahia, Salvador, motivated by a political crisis and which…
  72. Complete the sentence about Flag of Brazil with the correct year: In ______, that flag was no longer used by ships that sailed to Brazil and became the flag of the merchant vessels in coastal Portugal…
  73. Complete the sentence about Flag of Brazil with the correct year: In ______, a new flag was introduced for merchant vessels sailing to Brazil.
  74. Complete the sentence about Coat of arms of Brazil with the correct year: The Arms of the Empire of Brazil were used by both Emperors Pedro I and Pedro II until the downfall of the monarchy in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Coat of arms of Brazil with the correct year: The Republican coat of arms was adopted on ______ after the Proclamation of the Republic.
  76. Complete the sentence about Brazilian National Anthem with the correct year: The melody of the Brazilian national anthem was composed by Francisco Manuel da Silva, and was presented to the public for…
  77. Complete the sentence about Brazilian National Anthem with the correct year: On 7 April ______, the first Brazilian Emperor, Pedro I, abdicated the Crown and days later left for Europe, leaving behind…
  78. Complete the sentence about Brazilian National Anthem with the correct year: Francisco Manuel da Silva then seized this opportunity to present his composition, and the anthem written by him was played…
  79. Complete the sentence about Brazilian National Anthem with the correct year: As to the actual date of composition of the music presented in April ______, there is controversy among historians.
  80. Complete the sentence about Brazilian National Anthem with the correct year: In any event, the Anthem remained in obscurity until it was played in public on 13 April ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Brazilian National Anthem with the correct year: Thus, by ______, when it was played in all official solemnities, Francisco Manuel da Silva's composition was already the de…
  82. Complete the sentence about Independence Day with the correct year: The date celebrates Brazil's Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves on 7 September…
  83. Complete the sentence about Independence Day with the correct year: A political revolution erupted in Portugal in ______, forcing the royal family to return.
  84. Complete the sentence about Independence Day with the correct year: On 2 September ______, a new decree with Lisbon's demands arrived in Rio de Janeiro, while Prince Pedro was in São Paulo.
  85. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Federal Police with the correct year: When the federal capital moved in ______, the DFSP moved to Brasília, providing Guanabara State with their public security s…
  86. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Federal Police with the correct year: In ______, all positions in the Federal Police came to require a bachelor's degree.
  87. Complete the sentence about Brazilian nationality law with the correct year: In September ______, a constitutional amendment reinstituted consular registration as a means of acquiring Brazilian nation…
  88. Complete the sentence about Landless Workers' Movement with the correct year: Nevertheless, the Brazilian Catholic hierarchy formally acknowledged the principle in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Integralism with the correct year: Following the Revolution of ______, the oligarchic First Brazilian Republic was overthrown and replaced by the new revolutionar…
  90. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Integralism with the correct year: In ______, the Integralists targeted the communist movement of Luiz Carlos Prestes, mobilizing a conservative base of mass supp…
  91. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Integralism with the correct year: By mid-______, Brazilian politics had been drastically destabilized.
  92. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Integralism with the correct year: When Vargas established full dictatorial powers under the Estado Novo in ______, he turned against the integralist movement.
  93. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, 26% of the Brazilian population were covered by the program.
  94. Complete the sentence about Oscar Niemeyer with the correct year: In ______, Niemeyer was invited by Brazil's new president, Juscelino Kubitschek, to design the civic buildings for Brazil's new capita…
  95. Complete the sentence about Lúcio Costa with the correct year: After some early works in the eclectic manner, he adopted Modernism in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Lúcio Costa with the correct year: In ______, Costa became the Director of the National School of Fine Arts, where he had studied.
  97. Complete the sentence about Lúcio Costa with the correct year: In ______, when the competition to design the new Ministry of Education and Health was held, the winner was an eclectic design by archite…
  98. Complete the sentence about Amazon deforestation with the correct year: The ______ Soy Moratorium, which banned buying soy from newly deforested areas, is currently weakening.
  99. Complete the sentence about Brazil–United States relations with the correct year: Before ______, Brazil and the United States had minimal interactions and connections.
  100. Complete the sentence about Brazil–Argentina relations with the correct year: A high volume of trade and migration between Argentina and Brazil has generated closer ties, especially after the implemen…

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