President
Niceto Alcala Zamora
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The Second Spanish Republic had been voted in with a majority in 1931
Foreign exchange and deportation of goods ruined by depression and civil war
Nation ’ s support was split between aristocracy and republic
Governmental position switched from right wing (1933) to left (1936)
Depression left the economy in pieces, forcing citizens to suffer with a poor quality of life

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Spain was not given the option of having a dictator
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Spain questioned if President
Alcala Zamora was becoming too radical and so the government shifted left
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Franco rejected principles of liberalism such as individualism, rights and freedoms, and competition

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Franco was upset with the idea of a coalition government
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Used the death of parliamentary leader José
Calvo Sotel as a pretext for a civil war
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Rebellion was planned ahead of
Calvo ’ s death
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With the aid of Italy and Nazi
Germany Franco ’ s fascist military won

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Civil war lasted from 1936 – 1939.
600, 000 Spaniards killed & 1 000 000 sent to concentration camps.
Only legal party under Franco's post civil war regime was the Falange Española
Tradicionalista y de las JONS, formed in
1937
Ruled 1937-1975
Government was an authoritarian dictatorship beginning in 1939

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Franco ’ s fascist military received help from Italy and
Nazi Germany during civil war
Franco allowed Italy and
Germany to bomb Spanish
Basque country side as a threat towards Britain and
France
In return Hitler expected aid from Spain in WWII
Franco rapidly industrialized
Spain with the steel industry

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He outlawed anything that did not agree with catholic beliefs
Franco even went as far as outlawing any other language than Spanish and took away all rights given to the autonomous regions of Spain.
At this time the church and state of
Spain were one body and it was the responsibility of both to enforce the change towards unity.
Isolation was a concept that was key in Franco’s Spain.

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Franco’s rule came to an end on
November 20 th , 1975 when he died due to heart failure
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Rule lasted nearly four decades
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Francisco's successor Juan Carlos came into power and converted the government into a democratic constitutional monarchy

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Juan Carlos became king of Spain and named Arias Navarro as Prime Minister
Anti-Francoists were extremely upset in the initial months of the monarchy, and demonstrations, industrial strikes, and terrorist activity challenged the country's stability.
Arias Navarro’s government cautiously brought in reforms, which were quickly rejected by Orthodox Francoists, who resisted any form of change.

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Spain currently has the highest EU unemployment rate (20%) and is roughly
$90 billion in debt
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Sovereignty issues with land off the coast of Morocco
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Drug trafficking of heroine, cocaine and hashish

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Franco had good intentions through unity, but went too far by trying to cut out cultural diversity within Spain
 Franco took power through force, and created the
Civil War which resulted in the loss of many civilian lives

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Spain is in a much better state nationally now than when
Franco was in power
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Now Spain’s citizens have freedom of self expression, private property, and are able to compete within the economy
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Under Franco’s rule people lived with oppression and fear of being an individual outside of the collective church

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