POL3142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mariano Rajoy, Popular Front, Radical Change
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The king is forced into exile and a republic is created. Pro-franco military uprising seems to have the lower hand on the republic. Hitler and mussolini comes to help hitler uses this opportunity to test its equipment. Villagers often suffered (madrid was heavily bombed) More and more international authorities start to recognized franco"s government. Important in the context of western europe as a whole serves as a laboratory to. The lack of reaction and intervention by france and britain contradicts the league of action. Democratically elected government opposed to a fascist movement. Most important to spain because it brings us to francisco franco"s dictatorship. Political party (falange) is the only legal political party. Revives the spanish monarchy, but as a symbol only. Conservative authoritarian nationalist anti-communist and traditional and catholic government. Falls under the fascist banner of government (not entirely though) Most interesting about his dictatorship the ending.