History - Overview Flashcards
Alfonso XIII reign (dates) / (results)
1903-1931 / left voluntarily after the elections in 1931 (trick, see RAIN and ma sitting on a mat).
La II Republica española (dates)
1931-1936
World War I (dates) / (results)
1914-1918 / S. able to export goods and receive new revenues
Wall Street crash (date)
1929
Great Depression (dates) / (results)
1929-1939 / effected the monarchy
- Who was the dictator during Alfonso XIII reign? / (dates) / (results)
General Miguel Primo de Rivera / 1923-1930 / left voluntarily to France in 1930
Spanish Civil War (dates) / (where to where) / (results)
1936-1939 / Salamanca to Barcelona / divided the country into 2 groups (military/support for the Republic)
Nazi Germany did… (date)
…bombed Guernica (in Pais Vasco) in 1937
When was Franco’s reign?
1939-1975
3 things happened in 3 years, what are they?
1) 1936 end of the Republic 2) 1939 Start of the Spanish Civil War and 3) 1939 Began the reign of Franco
What did Franco do to to continue is ideology (and date)?
Re-institute the monarchy with King Carlos I in 1975
What was Franco’s title? (2)
Generalísimo Franco / El Caudillo
When was Spain’s constitution created just after Franco? in what form?
1978 / constitutional monarchy
Who was most important in the transition of Spain after Franco? what was his profession? what happened to him?
Adolfo Suárez / lawyer and politician / 1st democratically elected Prime Minister since II Republic (1931-1936), Won general election in 1977.
What were 3 of Súarez’s accomplishments?
1) ley Reforma Politíca (LRP) 2) New political group and 3) first election
Describe the transition from Franco?
difficult to change the political landscape, peaceful with some violent actions, was a critical time
In the transition there were 3 options, what were they?
1) continuidad (movement Communista) 2) La Reform (LRP) or 3) Raptura (movement of izquierda) to destroy the whole thing
When was Spain’s current constitution created? with what feature?
1981 which added a VP
When was there a “coup” (golpe de estado) and what happened?
1981, did not work
What happened in 1982?
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.
Who was the provisional president of the democracy when the dictator went into exile?
Niceto Alcalá Zamora
Who was the first president of the II Republic? What was his previous role? What were the results?
Manuel Azaña, head of the government, With no participation by PSOE the government was born weak.
What events triggered the Civil War?
Assasination of José Calvo Sotelo (a partial coup) by security forces and a rebellion by the Moroccan army.
What is Carlismo?
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.
What are the two periods of Franco regime?
1) 1939-1959
2) 1959-1975
