Eva Peron Research Paper flashcards
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(1) Barnes, John. Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Evita Peron. New York: Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 1978. (2) Page, Joseph A. Peron: A Biography. New York: Random House Publishers Inc., 1983. (3) No Author. "The Life and Times of Eva Peron" in DISCoveing Biography from Student Resources Context [GaleNet online, 2003] (25 January, 2012), X (4) No Author. "Juan Perón." U*X*L Biographies from Gale Power Search. [GaleNet online, 1974] (25 January, 2012), X
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A. Rise From Poverty to Fame (source 2 is used for all of this card) 1.Eva Peron (surname Duarte) was born May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos, Argentina. She was born to Juana Ibaguren and Juan Duarte, out of an illegitimate affair. (2, 6) Juan Duarte bought Ibaguren, Eva and her four siblings a one room apartment for the family to live in, while he himself lived in Chivelcoy. (2,6)
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A. Rise From Poverty to Fame (source 4 is used for all of this card) 2. Eva (Who was called 'Evita' meaning 'Little Eva'] decided to take a train and move to Buenos Aires to pursue her acting career, which started in radio. She attended a banquet where she met General Juan Peron. This would lead to the start of the road to being First Lady.
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B. Childhood (Sources 1 and 2 ) 1. Eva Maria Ibaguren Duarte was born Mary 7, 1919 in Los Toldos Argentina 2. She was born out of an affair with Juana Ibaguren and Juan Duarte (1,13) 3. Later on in her childhood, she was ostracized for this fact. (1, 18) 4. She had four other siblings, Elisa, Blanca, Juan, and Erminda. (2:6)
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B. Childhood. 5. At age seven, her father died (1,19) 6. She dressed in black smocks and long black stockings along with her sisters. Her brother had a band of crepe wrapped around his sleeve. (1,19) 7. Juan Duarte's wife would not let them inside to see the body, but her brother (the town mayor) let them inside to walk past (no loitering, just to pass) the casket in a single-file line.(1,19)
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B. Childhood. 8. Evita lived in poverty for most of her childhood. In Los Toldos, there were no wealthy people, everyone was poor, but the Ibaguren tribe - as Evita called it (2, 16) were strictly ostracized for the fact that all the children were born out of Juana and Juan's affair. Eva was still seven years old. 9. After Juan Duarte died, life was harder. Juan had been the family's mean of support. So to help out their mother, the girls of the family decided to get a job as cooks for wealthier families. This was the first time they got a glance of the wealth life. (1, 20) This made Evita's desire to become wealthy and famous florish. (1, 20)
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B. Childhood. (1,21 for entire card) 10. Eva's particular job in her boss's home was sweeping. 11. When Evita was 10 years old, Juana Ibaguren found another "friend" who was a politician and already had a family of his own. 12. Eva was able to quit her job.
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C. Education. 4. She decided to wanted to perform on stage while reading these poems. (2, 19) 5. Eva would go once a week to sing on the radio during open microphone, so that she could have 'her chance to shine' - as she says in her autobibliography The Reason For My Life. (2, 22)
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C. Education 1. In 1930, Juana Ibaguren took the family to live in Junin, Argentina. (2, 16) Here, there seemed to be more fortune for the family. Elisa was transferred, Blanca began a teaching career, Juan began working at a pharmacy and Erminda and Eva keep going to school. (2, 17) 2. Eva was enrolled at Public School 1 Catalina Larralt de Estrugamon. (1, 25) 3. At Catalina Larralt de Estrugamon, Evita tried out for various plays, standing out for her ability to say poems out loud. (2, 19)
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D. Acting 1. At age 15, Eva took a train to Buenos Aires to pursue her career as an actress. (2, 16) 2. She joined the Argentine Comedy Company, headed by Eva France - a famous actress. She played small, slow parts not always very recognized, but when she was, she was gived good reviews. (2, 29)
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D. Acting 3. In May, 1936, she went on tour with Pepita (2, 30) Munoz, Jose Franco and Eloy Alvarez. In December of 1936, she got another small role in a new play "Los Inocentes" with Pablo Suero's company and stayed with that company until early 1937. (2, 31)
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D. Acting. 4. Back in Buenos Aires, she was accepted into a new company, one of Armando Discepolo - one of the best directors of Argentina at the time. She was feautured in "La Nueva Colonia," in Teatro Politeam. Evita recieved reviews full of praise, but La Nueva Colonia was a defeat in the box office. (2, 32)
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D. Acting 5. In August, Eva successfuly got a real movie role in Segundos Afuera at the same time she was contributing to small roles (2,40) in the drama Oro Blanco which was shown over radio. In between the years of 1938 and 1940, Evita acted in theater, movies, and radio. (2,42)
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D. Acting. 6. Evita was not in movies as much as radio and theater, but she did obtain larger roles as time went by. She appeared in "La Carga de los Valientes," "El mas infeliz del pueblo" and "Una novia en apuros." Her break-out role was "La Cabalgata del Circo."
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Meeting Juan Peron
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 1. Eva met Juan Peron during the high of her career. Juan was a military general who was 49 at the time, about half of Eva's age. (3,7) 2. They soon began a relationship that threatened General Peron's future, since an actress and politician weren't usually seen as a couple. 3. Gen. Peron let Evita sit in on his meetings with officials. (1, 57)
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 4. Eva was fired from her radio job at the same time Gen. Peron was asked to step down from office. 5. After this, the couple looked to fly to an island near Buenos Aires, but were caught by the police. Juan Peron was exiled to Martin Garcia Island but Eva was released. (4,11)
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 6. Juan sent Eva long romantic letters but she did not respond immediately because (unknown to him) she had been taken from her car and beated and abused by a gang. (4,11)
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 7. Five days after Juan Peron was released from prison, he and Eva were married.This was when they started talking about a career for Juan Peron as President of Argentina. (4,12)
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B. Childhood 7. Juan Duarte's wife would not let them inside to see the body, but her brother (the town mayor) let them inside to walk past (no loitering, just to pass) the casket in a single-file line.(1,19)
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B. Childhood 3. Later on in her childhood, she was ostracized for this fact. (1, 18) 4. She had four other siblings, Elisa, Blanca, Juan, and Erminda. (2:6)
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F. Charities 1. Eva Peron founded the Eva Peron Foundation of Argentina which helped feed and give homes to the Demascados meaning, "The Shirtless Ones."
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D. Acting 7. At one point, her brother Juan, tried to persuade Eva to come back to Junin but she persuaded him that she "knew what she was doing." (1:51)
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D. Acting 8. Because she was only making 120 pesos (20 pounds or 31 dollars) Eva had to move into hotel after hotel not being able to afford a real apartment. When she had enough money to buy an apartment, she instead chose to go for 'implants' to make up for her anorexia (1,53) but did not show up for the surgery. (1,54)
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D. Acting 9. Later it was found out that Eva had given the money to her brother, Juan, who had been caught stealing from a bank. Eva used the money that would have gone towards the surgery to her older brother, so that he would not go to jail. (1, 54)
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D. Acting 10. Before meeting Juan Peron (her future husband) Eva chose boyfriends that happened to 'benefit her career.' (1,54) One was the owner of a magazine that published articles on performers. Once Emilio Kartulovic published an article on his new girlfriend and her rising fame and anorexia, new job offers and food baskets where sent to Eva. (2,3) Soon after the article was published, Eva and Kartulovic ended their relationship. (4,71)
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 1. Eva had met General Peron at a banquet to raise money for the earthquake that had shaken Argentina. She had a date for the night (Colonel Imbert) (1,59) but according to John Barnes, (1,60) Eva sat next to General Peron instead of Colonel Imbert the night that they first met.
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 8. 'I put myself at his side. Perhaps this drew his attention to me and when he had the time to listen to me I spoke up as best I could: "If, as you say, the cause of the people is your own cause, however great the sacrifice I will never leave your side until I die." It was a marvelous day.' - Eva Peron in, La Razon de mi Vida - her autobiography.
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 9. Two days after their meeting, at night, the new couple drove away to Tigre for a night and Eva showed up the next morning for her current job at the radio station. (1, 61)
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 10. Gen. Peron began to send subtle hints to the current president Ramirez, that if Ramirez wanted to retire, Gen. Peron would willingly take his place, which Ramirez responded by saying that he would not retire until he was voted out of presidency. Gen. Peron, who had been letting Eva sit in on his meetings, made the military question if Eva wanted Peron to run for office. The military did not approve of Evita. (1, 81)
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 11. On October 18, soon after Peron announced his retirement from the military, Eva and Juan got married. There was speculation on whether Eva had forged her birth certificate for the marriage.
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 12. For the Church Wedding, Eva's brother Juan gave her away, Juan Peron wore his military uniform despite his retirement, and Eva wore a simple white dress and a big floppy hate. (1,90)
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E. Meeting Juan Peron 13. There was no honeymoon, because of Peron running for President. The newly-weds started campaining the day after the wedding because the day before the wedding, the person running against Peron, held a rally in Plaza del Congresso (1,91) Because of the rally, and the Perons being too busy with wedding plans, they had had no time to retaliate.
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Life As First Lady
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G. Life As First Lady 1. The day of the Inauguration, Eva encouraged Argentina to call her Evita, her nickname. She said "I prefer to be simply Evita if this Evita is used to better conditions in the homes of my country."(1, 99)
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G. Life As First Lady 2. Instead of living in the traditional home that the presidents live in, they lived in Eva's first old adobe home that had been renovated to what was called the most Luxurious Residence in the Country. (1,99)
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G. Life As First Lady 3. Eva wasn't particularly concerned with the wealthy people of Argentina, knowing how it was like to grow up in poverty. 4. In Tucuman, when seven sugar factory workers died, Eva declared "I, too, like our companion workers, am capable of dying and of ending the last moment of my life with our war cry, our cry of salvation." This was when it was said that most Argentinians began to like Eva. (1,100)
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G. Life As First Lady 5. Eva wanted to win the honors from the portena society, and intended on doing so, knowing that she was the president's wife. Instead of being offered the honor of being president in the Sociedad de Beneficiencia, an exclusive, high-end society, Eva never earned anything.
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G. Life As First Lady 6. Because Eva had wanted this honor so much, she sent someone to ask in person why she had not gotten an awards or honors. (1,100) In return, the members of the society announced that Eva was too young. Eva then demanded that they made her mother, Juana, the president of the club. Juana could not write, read, and was not married, which were the requirements of the club, so the society said no. (1,101)
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G. Life As First Lady 6. Eva, even though she had dreamed of becoming the president of the society since she was a young girl, she changed her mind and decided to put down the organization and the people who worked there.
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G. Life As First Lady 7. Eva started to put her family and close friends in higher positions. Her brother Juan, who had been caught stealing, became Juan Peron's secretary. She put her mother's best friend to Minister of Communications, her older sister Elisa was given the role of Junin's politcal control, and Elisa's husband was elected to senate thanks to Eva's kind words. (1,102)
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G. Life As First Lady 8. Eva made payments to the Descamisados, who she later created a charity for. (1,102) 9. Railroad workers asked for a 40% raise and Eva instead gave them a 50% raise.
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G. Life As First Lady 10. Evita was given an award for helping Argentina's hard labor workers. 11. On a "whistle-stop tour" (1,107) Eva gave out gifts to the descamisados.
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G. Life As First Lady 12. Eva was known as being very jealous of people who earned positions that she wanted her friends and family to have. One example was when Senator Saadi was guessed to be the strongest most likely governor of the Catamarca Province - a job she wanted for a friend. (4,186) She called him to her home to congratulate him, saying "You will make a lovely governor. Why don't you quit your job as senator to show how serious you are about being governor." She told Peron to announce his approval of Saadi. (1,109)
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G. Life As First Lady 13. Saadi quit his job as senator and won the election for governor. But after he was elected, Eva led a claim that led to an investigation that could easily boot Saadi right out of his new job. Saadi resigned from his governor chair asking for his senate job back (which was still unfilled) thinking that no one could harm him there, but Evita threw him in jail for "having disrespect to the president for not taking the job as governor." (4, 187)
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G. Life As First Lady 14. Anti-Evita (a group that disapproved of Evita's antics) (4, 193) said that she only did things out of acts of jealousy, selfishness, hate towards everyone who had done her wrong as a child. She was very touchy about this subject, even writing a chapter about the Anti-Evita's in her autobiography. (1, 115)
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G. Life As First Lady 15. In August 23, 1947, Eva got to meet the pope. 250,000 people came to watch outside of the home of the presidential family. (1,120) 16. Once again the Anti-Evita group had struck, starting to taunt that the only reason why the Perons were well loved it becouse they were generous, kind and thoughtful...to each other, which made them seem nicer to the public. More people started to join the Anti Evita's. (1,125)
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G. Life As First Lady 17. It was rumored that the president was bored of Eva's dinner talks of where she'd go next, and Peron would drop his chin and fake-snore. (1,127) 18. Eva began to become careless, misspelling names of people she would be meeting, had thousands in debt (1,127) and bought a diamond ring worth 550,000 euros.
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G. Life As First Lady 19. On September 24th, 1948, the radio stations in Buenos Aires began spilling out plans to murder the Perons. Thirteen of attempted murderers were arrested, but nobody knew if there were more to come. (1,129)
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G. Life As First Lady 20. Cipriano Reyes, the head meat packing worker led his coworkers to throw a bomb at the Perons as they went to the Tetro Colon Opera House. The police were annonymously tipped off and the gang was caught. (1,130)
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G. Life As First Lady 21. As Reyes and his coworkers were taken away, Peron began to cry and shouted about the "traitors of his country" (1,131) and Eva added that she would "die for her descamisados" (1,131) which led to more followers once again. (1,132)
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E. Charities 2. Evita began her Social Aid Foundation. She only started it with 500 of her personal euroes to compete with the Sociedad de Beneficiencia Society that hadn't let her or her mother be president. Three years after Eva started her society, the Sociedad de Beneficiencia was put out because of "government complaints" (1,135)
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E. Charities 3. Chambermaids, millionaires, ambassadors all gave money to Evita's fund for the descamisados all in hope that Eva would not put down their own charities like Sociedad de Beneficiencia (1,137)
