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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. After his death in 1975 due to heart failure, Spain transitioned into a democracy.
The Franco Regime, 1936–1975. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-11074-1. Payne, Stanley G. (1999). Fascism in Spain, 1923–1977. University of Wisconsin Press. Payne, Stanley G. (2011) [1987]. The Franco regime, 1936–1975. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0299110741. Thomàs, Joan Maria (2013). "La unificación ...
Francisco Franco Bahamonde [f] [g] (born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde; 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 ...
Falangism (Spanish: Falangismo) was the political ideology of two political parties in Spain that were known as the Falange, namely first the Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FE de las JONS) and afterwards the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FET y de las JONS). [1]
Franco, one of the coup's leaders, [18] and his Nationalist army won the Spanish Civil War in 1939. Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years until his death in 1975. [18] Besides the mass assassinations of republican political enemies, political prisoners were imprisoned in concentration camps [19] and homosexuals were confined in psychiatric ...
FE de las JONS, which became the main fascist group during the Second Spanish Republic, [3] ceased to exist as such when, during the Civil War, General Francisco Franco merged it with the Traditionalist Communion in April 1937 to form the similarly named Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS (FET y de las JONS).
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.
"The Red Duchess Returns" blared a headline in El Pais, a national newspaper, in 1976. Franco had died, paving the way for Spain's first open elections in four decades and the safe return of ...