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The Spanish transition to democracy, known in Spain as la Transición (IPA: [la tɾansiˈθjon]; ' the Transition ') or la Transición española (' the Spanish Transition '), is a period of modern Spanish history encompassing the regime change that moved from the Francoist dictatorship to the consolidation of a parliamentary system, in the form of constitutional monarchy under Juan Carlos I.
Adolfo Suárez took his place as the President of the Government on 3 July 1976. Suárez came from a Francoist background, so as a result he could not count on the support of the old regime búnker, the reformists or the opposition. After Fraga declined to participate in the new government, lesser known politicians formed the new Cabinet.
Spain under the Restoration: The period ended. 1936: Spanish Civil War (to 1939) Brown: Initial Nationalist zone – July 1936: 1939: Spain under Franco: The period began. Spain stays neutral through World War II 1953 Spain and the United States signs the Pact of Madrid. 1955 Spain joins the United Nations. 1959
Articles on the modern history of Spain: Early Modern history of Spain. Habsburg Spain (16th to 17th centuries) 17th-century Spain; Bourbon Spain (18th century) 19th-century Spain. History of Spain (1814–73) Restoration (Spain) (1874–1931) 20th-century Spain. Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939) Francoist Spain (1936–1975) History of ...
During the 1960s, Spain began imposing restrictions on Gibraltar, culminating in the closure of the border in 1969. It was not fully reopened until 1985. Spanish rule in Morocco ended in 1967. Though militarily victorious in the 1957–58 Moroccan invasion of Spanish West Africa, Spain gradually relinquished its remaining African colonies.
In imitation of France where a Front Populaire had reached the government (the popular-front strategy, designed by Dimitrov and Stalin in the Komintern, responded to the need to stop fascism by electoral means by bringing together antifascist parties from a wide area of the political spectrum), in Spain, under the same name of Popular Front, an ...
An Historical Essay on Modern Spain. Chapter 4: Enlightened Despotism and the Origin of Contemporary Spain. University of California Press. ISBN 0520025342; Jaffe, Catherine M., and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, eds. Eve's Enlightenment: Women's Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726–1839 (2009). Kamen, Henry (2001).
Map of 1720 showing the interior kingdoms of peninsular Spain during the Ancient Regime. Map of 1841, made by J. Archer, showing for Spain the territorial division of Floridablanca of 1785. [2] Philip V created, taking as a base the pre-existing provinces created by the Austrias, the institution of the intendancies. Although it is true that ...