decade of 40s Flashcards
40s
- political repression
- social/ideological control
- international relationships
- economy: autarchy + intervensionism
political repression
- society heavily separated : real spain/ godless antisp
- sanctioned with severe repression: exiled,imprisoned,executed, labour battallions, purge against republican intellectuals
- LAW of political responsibilities = justification of repression
social and ideological control
- ** tight ideological control**: invalidate all repub laws (civil marriage, divorce)
- from 45 onwards: fascist ideology important: control propaganda (censorship,women section, proselitize)
- Spaniards accept: after years of violence they accept to restore peace and stability
INTERNTIONAL relationships
2 phases
- (39-45) position during ww2 (4)
- (45-50) international ostracism (2)
spains position in ww2 esk
- civil war = devastated: cant get involved
- germany starts dominating war
- Blue Division
- Allies end up winning
post civil war situation = no ww2
- civil war = devastated: cant get involved – declares neutrality ( tho openly sympathyzes w AXIS)
Germany dominating
- germany starts dominating war: spain = non belligerent (wont fight)-discuss with Hitler (hendaye) involving spain in war ,,, without a formal declaration of war
Blue division
- Blue Division: send 40000 spaniards to fight, ensure colonial gains for spain (cheap way)
end ww2
- Allies end up winning: 1944 stop supporting hitler,, in exchange supplies are shipped to spain
INTERNATIONAL OSTRACISM 45-50
- Allies winning = try to fakely democratize spain:
Law of constituent cortes, Law of Charter, Referenda
relegate falange from the regime ( downplay fascism)
-** VICTORIUS POWERS isolate/ostrazise spain:**
deny membership to the UN for collaborationists
economy of 40
esk
- context: economic depression
- program
- failure
context of economy
+ economic depression
+ leads to 1939 program of reconstruction
+ aims: self sufficiency and state interventionism
+ main goal: cut imports and increase national production
program for economy
- STATE control: wages,prices,agriculture,industry
- FAVOURING INTERESTS OF THE WEALTHY: big landowners/industrialists = at the expense of lower classes
FAILURE OF ECONOMIC program
- trad structures and technology unchanged = no production increase
- starvation waves // food rationing // worst economies in europe
- -** black market **
- Marshall plan =key to rebuild european economy : spain did not benefit because ostracism