Francisco Franco was a general and authoritarian leader‚ who governed Spain from 1939 to 1975. He came to power shortly after the start of the Spanish Civil War. In that war‚ he led the rebel Nationalist Army to victory over the Loyalist forces. After the war ended in 1939‚ Franco held complete control of Spain. His regime was similar to a Fascist dictatorship. He carried out the functions of chief of state‚ prime minister‚ commander in chief‚ and leader of the Falange‚ the only permitted political
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During the early 1900’s‚ in the times of World War I‚ Spain had been under the rule of Miguel Primo de Rivera. Primo de Rivera went into power on September 13‚ 1923‚ and his dictatorship lasted for seven years‚ until his death in 1930. (Shlomo 65) And‚ in 1931‚ Spain “attempted to establish a parliamentary republic whose governments would reflect the outcomes of honest election.” (Jackson 272) And‚ through this republic‚ the government tried to establish democratic reforms to help the county deal
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contribution to many things that they have done over time. In Spain‚ women contributed a lot during the civil war‚ the revolutions‚ and basically they had a very important impact during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Because of this women’s roles have changed quite a bit from the early 1800s to the late 1900s. Spain experienced an economic and political transformation during the Spanish Revolution of the early nineteenth century‚ 1808 and 1843. Men in Spain were giving birth to a new gender
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Stanley Ruvinov English 271 Symbolic Analysis 2/16/13 Existence‚ Demise and Reawakening Destruction‚ chaos‚ violence and death along with numerous other tragedies are the results from War. The film Pan’s Labyrinth‚ by writer/director Guillermo Del Toro‚ depicts a story of hero’s quest in a time of disarray. The film is based in 1944‚ about a princess’ journey to return home. She came from an underworld‚ escaping to the real world because of her foolish curiosity. Similar to the myth
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Guernica - By Bryce Craig Spanish artist Pablo Picasso can often be collectively seen as the greatest and most influential artist of the twentieth century. In a historical sense he encompassed all that is to be a practicing modernist artist and prevailed as one of the most significant artists overall in human history. Picasso’s most well renowned painting presents to his audience a graphic reflection of the horrors and brutality of war; Guernica (1937) depicts the Spanish town of the same name being
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Francisco Franco. Franco’s father was an officer in the spanish naval administrative group and his mother was a upper middle class conservative roman catholic. Franco came from four generations of naval officers. From birth it was expected that Franco would also go down the same path. When he was 14 years old he attended a military school and graduated three years later at the age of 17. After graduation Franco volunteered to be Stationed in Spanish Morocco and he was stationed there until 1912. When
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Australian Bush. Conversely‚ Picasso’s Guernica parades a raw image of the destructiveness and terror of the Spanish civil war‚ enhancing our current knowledge by providing insight into the repercussions of warfare. Through the use of distinctively visual‚ Lawson and Picasso effectively engage the audience to transport them to the Australian bush in the late 1800s and the Spanish civil war‚ influencing the meaning and perception created by the reader in relation to each time and place. Distinctively
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John Austin Men at War: MW 9:30 10:45 8 October 2003 Disillusionment in Hemingway ’s For Whom the Bell Tolls In the late 1930 ’s‚ Spain was in the midst of a civil war. The country had been in a state of disarray since 1931‚ when King Alfonso XIII went into voluntary exile. This was followed by a five-year power struggle between the fascists‚ led by General Francesco Franco‚ and the Republicans. This struggle became violent in the summer of 1936‚ and the war lasted until 1939‚ when
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quickly‚ however‚ this meant that the conflict between slave and free states continued to rise as well. Because of this‚ the Mexican American war only escalated the high tensions; the question of what was to be done with the possible acquisition of an extremely large territory was posed‚ in regards to the balance of slave and free states. Abolitionist saw that the war posed an extreme threat to this balance‚ and would only expand slavery to the land that would be acquired. Henry Clay‚ a senator‚ expressed
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military background. He became a highly decorated soldier and won rapid promotions in the army. He rose to prominence during the 1920s as a commander in the Spanish Legion and became the youngest general in Europe.[1] He was then appointed in charge of Academia General Militar‚ Spain’s main military academy at Zaragoza. However‚ with the fall of the Spanish monarchy and the establishment of the Second Republic in 1931‚ Franco‚ as a conservative and monarchist officer‚ was marginalized from power by the Republican
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