Essay On Mexico Franco

Francisco Franco was born on December 4, 1892, in a little town off Spain’s northwestern edge. His father and grandfather were both came from sea based military backgrounds and at the age of 14 Franco enrolled in a secondary naval school with the intention of following his father and grandfather. In 1907 Franco began school at the Infantry Academy in Toledo as a result of the Spanish government suspending applicants into the secondary naval school. In the Infantry Academy Franco struggled and graduated in three years with below average grades.
After being posted in El Ferrol for a brief time he volunteered to fight in Spanish controlled morocco against and insurgency. In 1912 Franco arrived in Morocco and stayed there mostly until 1926. In that time he survived a gunshot wound to the stomach and received multiple awards and promotions. Then he took time off to marry Carmen Polo, they had one daughter together.
At the age of 33 Franco became the youngest General in Europe and then he was chosen to lead a brand new military unit in Zaragoza. In 1934 Franco deployed troops to Asturias in northern Spain to suppress a leftist’s revolt that left about 4,000 dead and tens of thousands
The government's stability was even more precarious when the outbreak of World War II just 5 months later. Franco declared Spanish to be neutral during WWII; he changed his mind after the fall of France in 1940. He then approached German leader Adolf Hitler, with the intentions of making a deal. Franco said to Hitler that Spain would enter the war in the German side as long as Germany would provide extensive military and economic assistance to Spain. After their meeting it was said that Hitler said he would rather have teeth pulled then have another meeting like