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Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1487505707. Hayes, Carlton J. H. Wartime mission in Spain, 1942–1945 (1945) ISBN 978-1121497245. by the U.S. ambassador; León-Aguinaga, Pablo.
When, in 1939, World War II erupted in Europe, Catalonia was part of Spain led by the caudillo Francisco Franco, who declared Spain neutral in the conflict.The country was devastated by the recently finished Spanish Civil War, which resulted in the defeat of the Second Spanish Republic and the creation of the Spanish State, and Catalonia, who was an autonomous region under the Republican ...
On 1 April 1939, the day the war ended, the Soviet Union was the only major power that had not yet recognized Franco's government. [55] The new regime had signed a non-aggression pact with Portugal and a treaty of friendship with Nazi Germany on 31 March, [56] and on 6 April, Franco made public Spain's adherence to the Anti-Comintern Pact. [57]
Spain after the conclusion of the Catalonia Offensive. Nationalist Spain is in gray and Republican Spain is in white. With the fall of Catalonia, the Republic lost the second largest city of the country, the Catalan war industry and a large part of its army (more than 200,000 soldiers). [32]
By April 1936, nearly 100,000 peasants had appropriated 400,000 hectares of land and perhaps as many as 1 million hectares by the start of the civil war; for comparison, the 1931–33 land reform had granted only 6,000 peasants 45,000 hectares. [78] As many strikes occurred between April and July as had occurred in the entirety of 1931.
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...
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The first Francoism (1939–1959) was the first stage in the history of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, between the end of the Spanish Civil War and the abandonment of the autarkic economic policy with the application of the Stabilization Plan of 1959, which gave way to the developmentalist Francoism or second Francoism, which lasted until the death of the Generalissimo.