The Franco regime is the dictatorial period lived in Spain and a topic that is in fact touched on in schools in 2nd year of Baccalaureate, so we continue to see in Sobrehistoria what the school work is according to the course and after having seen how to do the Second Republic and that of the Civil War we now have to analyze how it is that of the Francoist period.
Points to touch on in our work on the Second World War
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- What was Francoism?
- Work on Spain during the Franco regime
- Other ideas for the work of Spain during the Franco regime
- PDF of Spain during the Franco regime
- Video of Spain during the Franco regime
What was Francoism?
Being a period, that of Francoism, which includes from the end of the Civil War with the victory of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1939 until 1975, the year in which he died, a very long period in timethe truth is that to do a job in this regard, perhaps the best option will be to do a good abstract about.
In this way, we will be able to explain later with all kinds of documentation, the items that characterized the Franco regime in Spain not only in political issuesbut also in relation to the societythe economy and until the culture.
Franco’s political system
The Franco’s political system was virtually the antithesis of the final government of the Republican era: the Popular Front government. In contrast to the anticlericalism of the Popular Front, the Franco regime established policies very favorable to the Catholic Church, which was restored to its former status as the official religion of Spain. In addition to receiving government subsidies, the church regained its dominant position in the educational system and the laws conformed to Catholic dogma. Gains in regional autonomy were reversed under Franco, and Spain returned to being a highly centralized state. The regime abolished regional government bodies and enacted measures against the use of Basque and Catalan. A major contrast between the Popular Front government and the Franco regime was evident in their support bases. While liberal leftists and working class elements of society had supported the Popular Front, the conservative upper classes were the base of Franco’s government.
Above all, Franco strove to eliminate all vestiges of parliamentary democracy, that he perceived as alien to Spanish political traditions. Banned political parties blaming them for the chaotic conditions that had preceded the Civil War. abolished universal suffrage and severely limited the freedoms of expression and association; he viewed criticism of the regime as treason.
Despite the strong degree of regime control, Franco did not seek totalitarian domination of all social, cultural, and religious institutions, nor of the economy in general. The Franco regime also lacked the ideological drive characteristic of totalitarian governments. Furthermore, for those willing to work within the system, there was a limited form of pluralism. Therefore, Franco’s government has been characterized as authoritarian rather than totalitarian.
While there is generally consensus among analysts in designating the regime as authoritarian, there is less agreement on the fascist component of Franco’s Spain. In its initial period, the Francoist state, outside of Spain, was considered to be fascist. The Falangist program of national syndicalism reflected the pattern of fascism prevailing in Europe during those years; nevertheless, the central Falangists never played a significant role in the new state. Most of the key Falange leaders did not survive the Civil War, and Franco moved quickly to subordinate the Fascist party, merging it as well as more conservative and traditional political forces into the broader and looser National Movement under his direct control. The links between Franco and the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the course of international developments, further mitigated the fascist component. Thus, although there was a definite fascist element during the first decade of Franco’s rule, most analysts have concluded that early Francoism can more accurately be described as semi-fascist.
Key points
- As in Germany and Italy, fascism gained prominence in Spain during the interwar period, especially from the 1930s to World War II.
- Francisco Franco, a Spanish general, rose to fame in the mid-1930sbut his right-wing party did not win power in the 1936 elections.
- Franco and other military leaders they staged a failed coup that led to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939.
- Franco was victorious and established a one-party military dictatorshipnaming himself the leader under the name of El Caudillo, a term similar to Il Duce (Italian) for Benito Mussolini and Der Führer (German) for Adolf Hitler.
- The Franco regime committed a series of violent human rights abuses against the Spanish people, causing an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 deaths.
- The consistent points in Franco’s ideology (called Francoism) included authoritarianism, nationalism, national Catholicism, militarism, conservatism, anticommunism, and antiliberalism.
Work on Spain during the Franco regime
- A schematic map or organization chart with different headlines, it will undoubtedly be the best work to develop what was and how the history of Spain developed during the Franco regime.
- Thus, I propose these headlines for your schematic map What to develop as school work:
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The ideological, social and political foundations of Francoism
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Political evolution and international situation 1939-1959 in Spain
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Economic and social evolution 1939-1959 in Francoist Spain
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Economic and social evolution 1959-1975 in Francoist Spain
- The opposition to the Franco regime inside and outside of Spain
Other ideas for the work of Spain during the Franco regime
On the internet you can find all kinds of photos and images that document the Franco era, but I also give you the idea of having living testimonies of this time and that is still close to us in time.
In this way, we can try to speak with parents or grandparents or with close people who we know who lived during Franco’s Spain, whom we can interview with general questions and with whom we can contrast various testimonies.
PDF of Spain during the Franco regime
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