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Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and the American President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Madrid in 1959.. The Pact of Madrid, signed on 23 September 1953 by Francoist Spain and the United States, was a significant effort to break the international isolation of Spain after World War II, together with the Concordat of 1953.
Despite the interest Falangists and some staunchly Anti-Western military officers had in further rapprochement towards Nasserism, the Francoist regime had to restrain to some extent due to the pro-soviet overtures of Egypt, and the trouble such move could bring vis-à-vis the budding relations of Spain with the United States during the Cold War ...
The Spanish question (Spanish: Cuestión Española) was the set of geopolitical and diplomatic circumstances that marked the relationship between Spain and the United Nations between 1945 and 1955, centred on the UN's refusal to admit Spain to the organization due to Francoist Spain's sympathy for the Axis powers, defeated in World War II.
After the war, Franco exaggerated his contributions to saving Jews in order to improve Spain's image in the world and end its international isolation. [185] [188] [page needed] [189] [190] After the war, Franco did not recognise Israeli statehood, and maintained strong relations with the Arab world.
The 1937 Unification Decree, which merged all parties supporting the rebel side, led to Nationalist Spain becoming a single-party regime under the FET y de las JONS. The end of the Civil War in 1939 brought the extension of the Franco rule to the whole country and the exile of Republican institutions.
The historian al-Tabari transmits a tradition attributed to Caliph Uthman, who stated that the road to Constantinople was through Hispania, "Only through Spain can Constantinople be conquered. If you conquer [Spain] you will share the reward of those who conquer [Constantinople]". The conquest of Hispania followed the conquest of the Maghreb. [7]
Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ') [a] or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...
The aftermath of war brought to an end coexistence between religions in the Iberian peninsula: Jews were forced to convert to Christianity or be exiled in 1492, and by 1501, all of Granada's Muslims were obliged to convert to Christianity, become slaves, or be exiled; by 1526 this prohibition spread to the rest of Spain.