4. The following parts will introduce into the prehistory of the Portuguese revolution, especially of the Salazar regime, and will try to explain the causes for the transition to democracy in contemporary Portugal.In 1910 the First Republic of Portugal was proclaimed. Especially under the young officers lead it to a growing dissatisfaction.
23–27. In popular culture, it is known for being where the famous weapons with flowers came from. While rare population, strong religiosity, high infant mortality and death rates and a high level of illiteracy characterized the south, was it the north, where a growth of a middle class could be observed (Goldblatt, 1997).In the 1960s, Salazar could not resist of liberalizing and opening the country to foreign investments.
The transition to democracy 3.1 The ongoing revolutionary process 3.2 The political development after 1975 3.3 The final consolidation of democracy. But the higher living standards, better medical facilities and greater educational opportunities that went along with the economic growth during the 1960s, almost only could be recognized in the both urban areas of Lisbon and Porto. The Prehistory of the Carnation Revolution 2.1 Estado Novo and António de Oliveira Salazar 2.2 Economical and social minus development 2.3 Colonial Wars 2.4 The summarized causes for the revolution. Portugal became one of the founding members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
Thus, the regime was only tolerated by the military and finally it was them who should start the coup d’état (Maxwell, 1995).
Apart from that, communications were inadequate, medical services poor, infrastructure bad and the illiteracy rate was high and widespread. The Estado Novo regime had come to power in 1933 and became an authoritarian, dictatorial single-party government. 4. This marks one of the highest economic growths of Portugal in history. Some of the insurgents put carnations in their Caetano found refuge in the main Lisbon military police station at the Largo do Carmo. The Prehistory of the Carnation Revolution 2.1 Estado Novo and António de Oliveira Salazar 2.2 Economical and social minus development 2.3 Colonial Wars 2.4 The summarized causes for the revolution.
By the end of the Salazar period in 1968 it had risen to 48 percent, and in 1973 it had reached 56.4 percent; the percentages were affected by the 40 percent of the budget which underwrote the African wars).
Salazar did not manage to improve Portugal´s position relatively to others. It was him, who two years later appointed the young professor for economics António de Oliveira Salazar to be minister of finance. 3. But as many other colonial empires did the Portuguese also oppress the peoples of the territories under Portuguese administration.
Caetano and President The conservative forces surrounding Spinola and the MFA radicals initially confronted each other (covertly or overtly), and Spinola was forced to appoint key MFA figures to senior security positions.