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4 days ago · In Fear and Progress, Antonio Cazorla Sánchez has produced a first-class survey of life in the years of the Franco regime (1939–75).His compelling narrative is supported by insightful analysis into the nature of the regime and a welcome abundance of source material including oral history interviews and government documents.
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.
- Stanley G. Payne
- 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...
5 days ago · Francoist Spain (Spanish: España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.
1 day ago · Francisco Franco Bahamonde [f] ( Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ˈfɾaŋko βa.aˈmonde]; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.
May 7, 2024 · Following Francisco Franco’s death in 1975, newly democratic Spain initiated the Pacto de Olvido (Pact of Forgetting), an informal agreement between both political sides to “forget” Franco’s legacy of repression and the acts of atrocity committed under the regime.
1 day ago · This volume - the latest addition to Jeremy Black's edited series European History in Perspective - is a laudable attempt by Francisco Romero to produce a synthetic account of Spain's tortuous twentieth-century history for an undergraduate readership.
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May 8, 2024 · The rise of fascist leaders and regimes in Europe during the 20th century has been a defining moment in world history. One such leader is Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain as a military dictator from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975.
