History - Overview

Question 1

Alfonso XIII reign (dates) / (results)

Answer 1

1903-1931 / left voluntarily after the elections in 1931 (trick, see RAIN and ma sitting on a mat).

Question 2

La II Republica española (dates)

Answer 2

1931-1936

Question 3

World War I (dates) / (results)

Answer 3

1914-1918 / S. able to export goods and receive new revenues

Question 4

Wall Street crash (date)

Answer 4

1929

Question 5

Great Depression (dates) / (results)

Answer 5

1929-1939 / effected the monarchy

Question 6

• Who was the dictator during Alfonso XIII reign? / (dates) / (results)

Answer 6

General Miguel Primo de Rivera / 1923-1930 / left voluntarily to France in 1930

Question 7

Spanish Civil War (dates) / (where to where) / (results)

Answer 7

1936-1939 / Salamanca to Barcelona / divided the country into 2 groups (military/support for the Republic)

Question 8

Nazi Germany did… (date)

Answer 8

…bombed Guernica (in Pais Vasco) in 1937

Question 9

When was Franco’s reign?

Answer 9

1939-1975

Question 10

3 things happened in 3 years, what are they?

Answer 10

1) 1936 end of the Republic 2) 1939 Start of the Spanish Civil War and 3) 1939 Began the reign of Franco

Question 11

What did Franco do to to continue is ideology (and date)?

Answer 11

Re-institute the monarchy with King Carlos I in 1975

Question 12

What was Franco’s title? (2)

Answer 12

Generalísimo Franco / El Caudillo

Question 13

When was Spain’s constitution created just after Franco? in what form?

Answer 13

1978 / constitutional monarchy

Question 14

Who was most important in the transition of Spain after Franco? what was his profession? what happened to him?

Answer 14

Adolfo Suárez / lawyer and politician / 1st democratically elected Prime Minister since II Republic (1931-1936), Won general election in 1977.

Question 15

What were 3 of Súarez’s accomplishments?

Answer 15

1) ley Reforma Politíca (LRP) 2) New political group and 3) first election

Question 16

Describe the transition from Franco?

Answer 16

difficult to change the political landscape, peaceful with some violent actions, was a critical time

Question 17

In the transition there were 3 options, what were they?

Answer 17

1) continuidad (movement Communista) 2) La Reform (LRP) or 3) Raptura (movement of izquierda) to destroy the whole thing

Question 18

When was Spain’s current constitution created? with what feature?

Answer 18

1981 which added a VP

Question 19

When was there a “coup” (golpe de estado) and what happened?

Answer 19

1981, did not work

Question 20

What happened in 1982?

Answer 20

Important elections which started the consolidation of the democracy. PSOE (Socialist Workers Party, “el Soy”) won, stayed in power from 1982-1996 with president Felipe Gonzalez.

Question 21

Who was the provisional president of the democracy when the dictator went into exile?

Answer 21

Niceto Alcalá Zamora

Question 22

Who was the first president of the II Republic? What was his previous role? What were the results?

Answer 22

Manuel Azaña, head of the government, With no participation by PSOE the government was born weak.

Question 23

What events triggered the Civil War?

Answer 23

Assasination of José Calvo Sotelo (a partial coup) by security forces and a rebellion by the Moroccan army.

Question 24

What is Carlismo?

Answer 24

Carlism was a traditionalist and legitimist political movement of an antiliberal and counterrevolutionary nature that emerged in Spain in the 19th century (1800s) that sought the establishment of an alternative branch of the Bourbon dynasty on the Spanish throne.

Question 25

What are the two periods of Franco regime?

Answer 25

1) 1939-1959

2) 1959-1975