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Francisco Franco Bahamonde [f] [g] (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.
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.
Francisco Franco led a successful military rebellion to overthrow Spain's democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War, subsequently establishing an often brutal dictatorship that defined the ...
Francisco Franco - Spanish Civil War, Dictatorship, Regime: Although Franco had visions of restoring Spanish grandeur after the Civil War, in reality he was the leader of an exhausted country still divided internally and impoverished by a long and costly war.
Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when his Nationalist forces overthrew the ...
Francisco Franco rose through the ranks of the Spanish Army on his way to becoming the dictator of Spain. Franco maintained total power over Spain until his life’s end.
Spain's Gen Francisco Franco fought a brutal war against democracy with the aid of Hitler and Mussolini and thereafter presided over a regime of state terror and national brainwashing through...
Franco gradually emerged as the leader of the insurgents, as they came to be called, after all of Spain's other leaders and Franco's potential rivals died in the early days of the war. In the fall of 1936 Franco officially became generalísimo, or supreme military leader of Spain, and head of state.
Francisco Franco, in full Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde, (born Dec. 4, 1892, El Ferrol, Spain—died Nov. 20, 1975, Madrid), Spanish general and head of the government of Spain (1939–75). A career army officer, he was noted as a skillful leader and became army chief of staff in 1935.
The life, career, personality and death of the Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco, who rather oddly might have been the most successful twentieth century fascist.