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Those cities remained in the hands of the government, leaving Spain militarily and politically divided. The Nationalist forces received munitions, soldiers, and air support from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany while the Republican side received support from the Soviet Union and Mexico.
Spain and the United States: Since World War II (Praeger, 1984) Shneidman, Jerome Lee. Spain & Franco, 1949–59: Quest for international acceptance (1973) online free to borrow; Solsten, Eric, and Sandra W. Meditz. Spain: A country study (Library of Congress, 1988) online; Volker, Kurt. "America and Spain: renewing a strategic partnership."
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.
Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD, Unión de Centro Democrático), a centre-right party led by Suárez obtained 166 seats; Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE, Partido Socialista Obrero Español), a centre-left party, obtained 118 seats. Communist Party of Spain (PCE, Partido Comunista Español), a left-wing party, obtained 20 seats.
The head of the church in Spain, Cardinal Pedro Segura, was particularly vocal in his disapproval. [53] Until the 20th century, the Catholic Church had proved an essential part of Spain's character, although it had internal problems. [54] Segura was expelled from Spain in June 1931. [1]
The Socialist Party of Ohio qualified for ballot access [2] in the United States Senate election in Ohio, 2010.SPOH candidate Dan La Botz received 25 368 votes (0.68%); the Republican winner Rob Portman received 2.125 million votes (57.25%) and the Democratic candidate Lee Fisher received 1.448 million votes (39.00%).
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.
The contemporary history of Spain is the historiographical discipline and a historical period of Spanish history. However, conventionally, Spanish historiography tends to consider as an initial milestone not the French Revolution , nor the Independence of the United States or the English Industrial Revolution , but a decisive local event: the ...