Plan of the Investigation
The investigation addresses the following question: To what extent was Juan Domingo Perón successful in achieving his economic aims? Perón’s major economic goals included economic independence for Argentina, an increase in employment and growth in industry, and a decrease in the gap between the wealthy and poor. In order to assess the extent to which he fulfilled these economic goals, the investigation will examine his short- and long- term effects of his industrial reforms and policies, his five-year plan to industrialize Argentina, and his nationalization of the economy, which were all methods he employed to carry out his goals. This investigation will also examine the main obstacles to his success, which included the United States’ and Britain’s reluctance to allowing Argentina be independent, and the negative effects of Perón’s five year plan. To do so, The Twenty Truths of the Justicialist Movement speech will be considered, because it shows Perón’s economic goals, and some of the methods he used to put his economic policies into effect. Robert D. Crassweller’s Perón and the Enigmas of Argentina was selected to give an explanation on the results of Perón’s policies, which can be used to evaluate if he was successful in achieving his economic aims.
Summary of Evidence
To understand why Perón had the economic aims that he did, first the Argentinean economy before Perón’s rule needs to be examined. Prior to the Great Depression, Argentina depended mainly on beef and grain exports, but when other countries reduced their trade with Argentina because of the worldwide economic recession, its economy faced a huge blow. This resulted in the devaluation of Argentinean currency, and the prices of consumer...
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In Mañana Es San Perón: A Cultural History of Perón’s Argentina, Mariano Ben Plotkin - an emeritus professor and doctor in history and writer of Peronist Argentinean history at the university of California, Berkeley, addresses one of the first populist movement in the region of South America: el peronismo. After offering an important contextualizing “Introduction,” Plotkin organized his book into four main parts composing the book, each containing two chapters, resulting in a total of eight. Consequently, the author also offers, after the main four parts, Notes, a selected bibliography, and an index. The author concludes this book with an interesting and polemic conclusion where he discusses if Peronism was totalitarian. Plotkin, in Manana es San Perón, attempts to give a historical account about Perón’s Argentina through a cultural perspective.
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