Weekly Review 9 - Early Franco

Question 1

What is Gross National Product (GNP)?

Answer 1

estimated total worth of production and services by a country and its citizens
in both its own land and foreign territories
over one year

Question 2

What is the Black Market?

Answer 2

operates beneath the surface of the normal economy
state has no formal role/control
taxation is avoided

Question 3

What is Corporatism?

Answer 3

outside bodies are given some input into government policy making
particularly concerning economic and industrial management

Question 4

Between 1939-45 how much was spent on the military?

Answer 4

50% of government spending

Question 5

What was the average income level in 1951 the same as?

Answer 5

levels in the mid 1930s

Question 6

What was the general standard of living in 1952 the same as?

Answer 6

level in 1936

Question 7

What were unemployment figures like?

Answer 7

just before the war - 750,000
1940 - 500,000
1944 - 150,000

Question 8

What was industrial output in 1939 like compared with before the civil war?

Answer 8

31% lower

Question 9

What was agricultural output in 1939 like compared with before the civil war?

Answer 9

21% lower

Question 10

When were pre-civil war level exports achieved again by?

Answer 10

1950

Question 11

What was the balance of trade like for most of the 1940s?

Answer 11

negative

Question 12

What happened to illegal syndicates and strikes?

Answer 12

crushed brutally by Falangist militia and the Civil Guard

Question 13

How much of Spain’s GDP came from foreign trade?

Answer 13

5%

Question 14

When was the Law for Protection and Development of National Industry?

Answer 14

October 1939

Question 15

What was the Law for Protection and Development of National Industry?

Answer 15

protectionism (high price on imports)

Question 16

What was bread consumption like in the early 1950s?

Answer 16

half the 1936 level

Question 17

What was meat consumption like in the early 1950s?

Answer 17

half the 1926 level

Question 18

What are barracas?

Answer 18

ramshackle shelters

Question 19

What were Chabolas and when did they start to appear?

Answer 19

shanty towns
early 1940s

Question 20

What did Franco say the bleak socio-economic period was?

Answer 20

God-given punishment after the Second Republic

Question 21

When was there a major drought?

Answer 21

1944-45

Question 22

What happened to GNP per capita?

Answer 22

it improved

Question 23

In the 1940s, how much did wages increase by compared to prices?

Answer 23

wages - 30%
prices - 600%

Question 24

What was oil made from?

Answer 24

coal

Question 25

What replaced cotton?

Answer 25

synthetic fibres

Question 26

What was there a shortage in that was necessary for agricultural production?

Answer 26

fertilisers

Question 27

What was the production of cereals like in the 1940s?

Answer 27

25% of production in 1935

Question 28

When were the ‘Years of Hunger’?

Answer 28

1939-44

Question 29

How many people died in the ‘Years of Hunger’?

Answer 29

200,000

Question 30

What proportion of industrial plants were using 1920s machinery?

Answer 30

45% by 1958

Question 31

What proportion of production was in large factories by 1958?

Answer 31

2.4% of iron and steel
0.3% of chemicals

Question 32

In 1958, what proportion of Spanish trading ships were produced before 1939?

Answer 32

65%

Question 33

How much of the working population did manufacturing employ?

Answer 33

20%

Question 34

What did Franco refuse from the USA?

Answer 34

$100 million loan

Question 35

What were industrial workers’ wages like in 1956 compared to 1936?

Answer 35

15-35% lower

Question 36

What did the prices of different items rise by from 1936-56?

Answer 36

meat - 1000%
bread - 1200%
potatoes - 1800%

Question 37

What did the overall living standards reduce by?

Answer 37

50%

Question 38

What was the peak inflation rate?

Answer 38

20%

Question 39

How many Spaniards left to Latin America 1950-55?

Answer 39

300,000