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- Within a few months, Franco was named head of the rebel Nationalist government and commander-in-chief (generalísimo) of the armed forces. He unified a base of support by securing the backing of the Catholic Church, combining the fascist and monarchist political parties, and dissolving all other political parties.
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Nov 9, 2009 · The general and dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and...
May 8, 2024 · Francisco Franco, general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and head of state until his death in 1975. Learn more about Franco in this article.
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- Francisco Franco was a general and the leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (19...
- On July 18, 1936, in the Canary Islands, Francisco Franco announced a military rebellion against the Spanish republic. After landing in Spain, Fran...
- Francisco Franco’s family life was not entirely happy. His father, an officer in the Spanish Naval Administrative Corps, was eccentric and somewhat...
- Like four generations and his elder brother before him, Francisco Franco was originally destined for a career as a naval officer, but reduction of...
Apr 2, 2014 · Gender: Male. Best Known For: Francisco Franco led a successful military rebellion to overthrow Spain's democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War, subsequently establishing an often brutal ...
In September 1939, World War II began. Franco had received important support from Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during the Spanish Civil War, and he had signed the Anti-Comintern Pact. He made pro-Axis speeches, while offering various kinds of support to Italy and Germany. His spokesman Antonio Tovar commented at a Paris conference entitled ...
During World War II, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris had regular meetings with France and informed Franco of Germany's attitude and plans for Spain. This information prompted Franco to surreptitiously reposition his best and most experienced troops to camps near the Pyrenees and to reshape the terrain to be unfriendly to tanks and other military vehicles.
The most difficult period of Franco’s regime began in the aftermath of World War II, when his government was ostracized by the newly formed United Nations. He was labeled by hostile foreign opinion the “last surviving fascist dictator” and for a time appeared to be the most hated of Western heads of state; within his country, however, as ...
In October 1944, Francisco Franco, right-wing dictator of Spain and sometime associate of the Axis, took one step towards ensuring the survival of his regime in the post-war world without Hitler and Mussolini.
