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Brasil lore during the Silent War all the way to prior to secession.
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===== Night Of The Thirty Thousand =====
The Night Of The Thirty Thousand was the most numerous demonstration in Brasil during the Great War. Happening in Rio de Janeiro from the evening of the August 8th 1937 to the morning the next day, around thirty thousand people gathered in front of the parliament palace in a vigil against the continuation of Brasilian participation in the conflict and restructuring of the constitution. It was the most numerous popular protest since the establishment of the kingdom in 1922, and one of the major in the history of Brasil.
=== '''Brasil during the Silent War''' ===
After the Great War, Brasil participated along the other members of the Cordial League in the Congress of Amsterdam in 1939 and was one of the two South American nations among the founding members of the Organization of Democratic Nations (ODN) in 1945, therefore, integrating on the British dominated sphere of influence against the newly formed National Republican block led by Russia. Alongside other ODN members such as Carolina and Guiana, the country worked for most of the 20th century on protecting the ODN interests in the continent.
==== '''Role in the creation of the Organization of the Southern Cross (OTSC) (1944-1966):''' ====
In 1944, after the national republican revolutions in Peru and Equador, Brasil played a direct role in the battle against the spread of the ideology through the continent by not recognizing Equador’s new regime and directly supporting the Peruvian monarchy during the country’s civil war (1944-1963). Along Colombia, Carolina and Paraguay, Brasil was a founding member of the Quito Coalition, a group of nations interested in supporting the Peruvian monarchy in the fight against the national republican regime. The coalition was the rudiment form that would become the Organization of the Southern Cross decades later.
'''Asunción Protocol (1966):'''
By 1963, after the conflict in Peru had officially ended, the members of the coalition looked to pave the way to the development of a block of nations with the goal of strengthening and integrating South America to prevent crisis such as the one in Peru from happening again. In 1966, Brasil, Colombia, Carolina, Paraguay and also Chile, signed the Asunción Protocol establishing the Organization of the Southern Cross. Later in 1968, Peru joined the block.
'''Brasil in the Portuguese Colonial Wars (1942-1976):'''
After the Great War, the Portuguese Empire reached a second peak after receiving from France the colony of Sainte-Lucie and having a joint mandate of Niger. But this did not last long as instability soon started to shake the empire. From 1942 to 1976, Portugal saw its empire slowly shrink and Brasil participated directly in the efforts of the crown in keeping it on hold.
Due to the 1922 Compromise which established Brasil as a united kingdom under the Lusitanian crown, Brasil was obligated to participate in the colonial wars fought in Portuguese Africa. This situation culminated in discontentment among part of the population who saw the human and monetary resources spent in Africa as unnecessary and called for the decolonization of the empire. At this point, most of this discontentment was directed to the colonial wars. Calls for the complete separation of Brasil from the union was a minority formed mostly by supporters of the establishment of a liberal republic.
==== '''Shift of Balance (1970s-19):''' ====
The 1970s were marked by the end of Portuguese imperialism in Africa after the kingdom released all that remained of its possessions in the continent to become independent countries in 1976 by the Act of Free Will. This move, consequently, resulted in Brasil becoming the largest and most populous constituent country of the united kingdom, therefore shifting the balance of the union towards South America.
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