Estado Novo regime

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The Estado Novo regime was an authoritarian, corporatist dictatorship that ruled Portugal from the 1930s until its overthrow in 1974.


Statements (63)
Predicate Object
instanceOf authoritarian regime
corporatist state
dictatorship
far-right regime
alliance NATO
alsoKnownAs Estado Novo regime
New State
Second Republic (Portugal)
capital Lisbon
censorshipBody Comissão de Censura
characterizedBy limited civil liberties
strong role of the Catholic Church in public life
suppression of political opposition
colonialPolicy maintenance of Portuguese Empire
conflict Portuguese Colonial War
constitutionAdopted Constitution of 1933 (Portugal)
country Portugal
economicPolicy corporatist economic model
protectionism
endCause Carnation Revolution
endTime 1974
followedBy Third Portuguese Republic
foreignPolicy neutrality in World War II
governmentType authoritarian presidential-parliamentary system
corporatist dictatorship
headOfGovernment António de Oliveira Salazar
Marcelo Caetano
ideology Catholic integralism
anti-communism
authoritarianism
clericalism
conservatism
corporatism
nationalism
leaderTitle President of the Council of Ministers
President of the Republic
memberOf United Nations
notableEvent Carnation Revolution
Portuguese Colonial War
notableLaw Portuguese Constitution of 1933
officialLanguage Portuguese
opposedBy Portuguese Communist Party
democratic opposition in Portugal
policy censorship of the press
political repression
secret police operations
politicalSystem one-party dominant system
precededBy First Portuguese Republic
propagandaOrgan Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional
rulingParty National Union (Portugal)
People's National Action
secretPolice DGS
PIDE
startTime 1930s
1933
stateReligion Roman Catholicism
territoryIncluded Cape Verde
Portuguese Angola
Portuguese Guinea
Portuguese India
Portuguese Mozambique
Portuguese Timor
São Tomé and Príncipe

Referenced by (25)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Estado Novo (Portugal)
Estado Novo (Portugal) ("Estado Novo")
alsoKnownAs
Dia da Liberdade ("Estado Novo period")
Processo Revolucionário em Curso ("Estado Novo")
follows
Movimento das Forças Armadas ("Estado Novo dictatorship")
Salgueiro Maia ("Estado Novo dictatorship")
opposed
25 April Revolution
Council of the Revolution
precededBy
Portugal e o Futuro ("Estado Novo dictatorship")
criticizes
First Portuguese Republic ("Estado Novo")
followedBy
Constitution of 1933 ("Estado Novo")
inForceDuring
Portugal e o Futuro
mainSubject
Marcelo Caetano ("Estado Novo")
memberOf
Mário Soares ("Estado Novo regime (Portugal)")
opponentOf
Armed Forces Movement ("Estado Novo secret police")
opposedBy
Movimento das Forças Armadas ("Estado Novo")
overthrew
António de Oliveira Salazar ("Estado Novo")
politicalMovement
Américo Tomás ("Estado Novo")
regime
Constitution of 1933 ("Estado Novo")
regimeEstablished
National Union ("Estado Novo")
statePartyOf
People's National Action ("Estado Novo")
supported
National Union ("Estado Novo government")
supportedBy
National Union ("Estado Novo")
supportedRegime
Américo Tomás ("Estado Novo")
wasLastPresidentOf
Américo Tomás ("Estado Novo")
wasPresidentDuring

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