Infamous Decade

Argentine Republic República Argentina (Spanish)
1930–1943
Flag Coat of arms
Motto:  "En unión y libertad" ("In Unity and Freedom")
Anthem: Himno Nacional Argentino ("Argentine National Anthem")
In dark green: provinces; in light green: national territories; in red: disputed territories.
Capital	Buenos Aires
Common languages	Spanish, Italian dialects (minority)
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Government	Federal presidential republic under an authoritarian government
President
• 1930-1932	José Félix Uriburu
• 1932-1938	Agustín Pedro Justo
• 1938-1942	Roberto Marcelino Ortiz
• 1940-1942	Ramón Castillo
Historical era	Great Depression World War II
• Established	1930
• Roca-Runciman Treaty	1 May, 1933
• Assassination of Enzo Bordabehere	23 July, 1935
• Disestablished	1943
Population
• 1940 census	13,320,641 [1]
GDP (PPP)	estimate
• Total	$99.17 billion (1943) ; (expressed in international-$ at 2011 prices)[2]
Currency	Argentine peso (moneda nacional)

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Pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples in Argentina Inca Empire
Colonial Argentina Governorate of New Andalusia (1534-1542) Governorate of the Río de la Plata (1549-1776) Royal Audiencia of Buenos Aires (1661-1671), (1759-1788) Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (1776–1814)
Independence May Revolution War of Independence United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Congress of Tucumán
Civil Wars Bernardino Rivadavia Confederation Juan Manuel de Rosas French blockade of the Río de la Plata Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata
Rise of Argentine Republic 1853 Constitution British investment in Argentina Conquest of the Desert Generation of '80 Radical Phase (1916–30) The Infamous Decade
Peronism Juan Perón and Eva Perón General Confederation of Labour
Post-WW II (1955 to 1976) Revolución Libertadora Arturo Frondizi 1963 Argentine Navy revolt Arturo Umberto Illia Argentine Revolution Montoneros and ERP
National Reorganization Process Dirty War Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas)
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The Infamous Decade (Spanish: Década Infame) was a period in Argentine history that began with the 1930 coup d'état against President Hipólito Yrigoyen. This decade was marked on one hand by significant rural exodus, with many small rural landowners ruined by the Great Depression, which in turn pushed the country towards import substitution industrialization, and on the other hand, by electoral fraud to perpetuate conservative governments in power. The poor results of economic policies and popular discontent led to another coup in 1943, the Revolution of 1943, by the Grupo de Oficiales Unidos (GOU), a nationalist faction of the Armed Forces, which triggered the rise to power of Juan Perón.