S2: Contemporary History of Portugal Flashcards
Crisis in the Monarchy -> The Path to Revoloution
19th Century
1890
- Ultimatum = Portugal clashed with the British of the Pink Map Area
- Republican Rebellion, 31 Jan 1891
- Economic and Financial Crisis, Portugal declared bankruptcy in 1890
- Social unrest within the urban working classes
- Political Awareness of the working-classes: diffusion of republicanism, socialism and anarchism
- Rotativism, rotation in power between a more conservative and a more progressive party
- Growing levels of political violence = killing of King and his heir (1908)
I Republic (years)
1910-1926
Military Dictatorship (years)
1926-1933
Estado Novo (years)
1933-1974
Who was Salazar?
Leader during Estado Novo and Constitution Republic 1933
Carnation Republic/Revoloution (years + date)
25th April 1974
III Republic (years)
1974 - now
Integration in EU
1986
The Collapse of the I Republic
Key-socio-political changes
Religious= state vs. church
Political = Republican vs. Monarchist
Social = Urban vs. Rural Societies
+ Financial/Economic Crisis
Explain Military Dictatorship
Supported by by military, nationalists, Catholics, fascist-sympathizers
Declares the failure of a parliamentary and representative regime
–> Salazar leadership in the governemtn
Explain Estado Novo
Authoritarian Regime
Authoritarian, conservatice, traditionalist, ultra-nationalistic, Catolic-rooted vision of politics and society
Colonial Act 1930
Use of propagande, censorship and political repression
Explain The Constitution of 1933 and Salazar
Republican State, under Salazar leadership, Estado Novo Regime.
Corporatist principles =
Explain III Republic (Constitution of 1976)
Democratic-Semi-Presidential
Democratic Republic
Colonial War
1961 - 1974
Explain Carnation Revolution
Military coup to overthrow the regime lead by Armed Forces Movement (young, politically left-leaning officers)