Unit 2

Question 1

What are the characteristics of the Alfonso XII (1875-1885) period?

Answer 1

Stability and pacification of the military forces

Question 2

What are the characteristics of the Regencia M Cristina (1885-1902) period?

Answer 2

Spain looses its colonies. Terrorism and anarchism in the whole country. The declining of the empire

Question 3

What are the characteristics of the Alfonso XIII (1902-1931) period?

Answer 3

Spain is not an empire anymore, and had to be submissive to the interests of Britain and France

Question 4

who did the leftists ins Spain receive when they asked for a teacher of Marxist ideas?

Answer 4

An Italian Anarchist

Question 5

What is an important happening in the history of the Spanish empire that resulted in it loosing more colonies?

Answer 5

The 98 disaster, and the following short war with the US

Question 6

What do we mean when we say that Spain has lived international tendencies at different times than the rest of Europe?

Answer 6

• Spain lost its colonies at the same time as France and Uk gained their first colonies in Africa and Asia
• Spain was at war while Europe was at peace, and opposite
• This did also happen in regards to the economy

Question 7

Was the 98 alone a reason for Spains loss of colonies?

Answer 7

No. It was already on this path, and the economy was getting worse

Question 8

What did the public discontent following loss of colonies and a decreasing economy result in?

Answer 8

The Spanish civil war

Question 9

Due to the domestic crisis, Spanish politicians opted for

Answer 9

isolation

Question 10

Why was it negative that Spain decided to be neutral during world war I?

Answer 10

It was left outside the European event

Question 11

Did Primo Rivera and the king have a good relation?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

What territory did Spain try to control, but that proved problematic due to a large investment of money and resources?

Answer 12

Moroccan land

Question 13

With who and why would Primo de Rivera negotiate the Spanish seat at the league of Nations?

Answer 13

He offered it to Italy, and wanted ti trade it for the international city of Tánger

Question 14

Why was the international city of Tánger important?

Answer 14

Slave trade as it was positioned in North Africa.

Question 15

What did the negotiations over the position in the league of nations and Tánger lead to?

Answer 15

Spain obtained none. It did not have the position in the league of nations to begin with

Question 16

What happened in the elections in 1931 that was an outcome of the negative mood towards the political system drove the country to a point where it could not sustain

Answer 16

The beginning of the II Republic by the election of the leftist movement by a large majority.

Question 17

How do we differentiate between the different governments during the II Republic in regards of the FP design?

Answer 17

Left, right, left wing government

Question 18

How was the international context during the II Republic?

Answer 18

bad. The economic crisis, radical movements arose, Nazis, Fascists

Question 19

Why should the changes by the first left wing government have been made slower?

Answer 19

Spain was in such a bad position that all changes made during the II Republic was seen as radical, even though the political parties were not that radical.

Question 20

What were some of the changes made by during the II Republic?

Answer 20

Separating from the catholic church, taking land, professionalizing the military

Question 21

Why would the European powers such as France and Britain leave Spain isolated?

Answer 21

They saw the government as radical left wing, and feared that they would align with the Soviet Union.

Question 22

What was included in the idealism of Spains foreign policy during the leftist government of the II Republic?

Answer 22

They thought that they could encourage world peace, and that the Spanish foreign policy would play an important part in this. The trust in the league of Nations and the international law. They did however not always further this ideology, an example is how they decided not to sanction Germany.

Question 23

What was wrong about the peace approach applied by Spain in the II Republic?

Answer 23

It was applied in a historical moment where this was not the best strategy

Question 24

What changed by the election of the rightist government during the II Republic in 1933?

Answer 24

• broke relations with UK and France
• Tried to establish relations with Italy and Germany
• achieved a position at the league of Nations

Question 25

Why didn´t the third government of the II Republic last for more than a few months?

Answer 25

the civil war started

Question 26

What did all the changes during the II Republic result in?

Answer 26

Spain became a weak actor on the international scene