IB History Effectiveness of Solutions in One Country in Latin America Key Definitions

Legislation passed in 1952 that limited land ownership to 200 feddans per person and redistributed excess land to landless peasants. It broke the power of the old landowning class and was central to Nasser's social reforms.

Brazil's state-owned steel company established by Vargas in 1941, whose Volta Redonda plant became the first integrated steel mill in Latin America and a flagship symbol of state-led industrialisation.

Large plantation owners in Brazil who dominated the coffee economy and rural politics; their political influence ensured that agrarian reforms under Vargas left land ownership structures largely unchanged.

The minimum wage that a worker needs to earn in order to meet their basic living costs, including food, housing, and other necessities.

The process by which a government takes ownership of privately owned businesses, industries, or property. In post-1975 Vietnam, the Communist government nationalized private enterprises as part of its transition to a socialist economy.

A series of programmes, public works projects, financial reforms, and regulations introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939 in response to the Great Depression. Key agencies included the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), and the Social Security Administration. The New Deal expanded the federal government's role in the economy and established the principle that government bore responsibility for citizens' basic welfare.

Vargas's labour ideology centring the state as the guarantor of workers' rights, building political loyalty among urban workers through government-granted benefits rather than autonomous union struggle.