How Franco gained + retained support - Early Social Policy (white textbook)

Question 1

What was the purpose of creating a policy?

Answer 1

policy to create a new society of order & national unity
NOT just to consolidate power

Question 2

Social Policy 1938-42?

Answer 2

• Serrano Suner = President of the Falange (played key role in developing early social policy)
• critical of the Catholic Church

Question 3

What were some features of Franco’s social policy?

Answer 3

never wholly fascist
+
referred to importance of CC

Question 4

What did Suner help to introduce?

Answer 4

pro-natalist policies (increasing birth rate)
+
new laws to restrict women’s rights

Question 5

What were the divisions when creating the Early Social Policy?

Answer 5

dynamic, new, fascist society
vs.
traditional, catholic values as the basis