The americanism was the main idea guiding Brazilian diplomacy in the twentieth century. The forties were the idea apogee and decline. The Brazilian naval policy analysis shows how much it was influenced by the war's formal alliance with the United States, and how they dreamed with Brazil's naval supremacy in the southern cone with American help. The failure of this policy came in the very beginning of the fifties. The special alliance idea ingrained in every aspect of the national power, and the Brazilian's navy case is showed to support this statement.
Brazilian Foreign policy; Brazilian naval policy; Brazil-United States military relations