population led to resistance*’May Days” street fighting: communists and socialists vs. anarchists enhanced disunity | *main strength was their unity. Franco would assume political and military command because Nationalists wanted unified command. Falange Espaniola Tradicionalista‚ Franco’s new merged party‚ had 1‚070‚000 members.*Supported from the church which opposed the left*Franco gained power and authority from his victories in the battlefield | Military strengths/weaknesses | *Lacked strong
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A critical Review of Blinkhorn Martin 2000‚ Fascism and the Right in Europe (1919-1945) Over the past thirty years‚ political scientists‚ sociologists‚ social psychologists and historians have tried to isolate the essential and distinct features of Fascism. There is no doubt that the goal is pretentious‚ because the term is “loosely applied”(Blinkhorn‚2000‚p.4) to right wing movements‚ regimes‚ and even the interwar period. Regardless of these various attributions‚ there seems to be an elusive
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Comenius Project 2006-2007 Spanish women in the 19th century Spanish Women’s History in the 20th century THE EVOLUTION OF EUROPEAN WOMEN THROUGH THE CENTURIES For most of the 19th century‚ Spain was a country in which political participation was restricted to a social minority by means of electoral role‚ in which the electoral practice was characterized by the adulteration of elections and in which the main political agent was the army by means of different “military raisings”
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businessmen. On the other side (the Republican) were urban workers‚ most agricultural labourers‚ and many of the educated middle class. Politically their differences often found extreme and vehement expression in parties such as the fascist-oriented Falange and the militant anarchists. Between these extremes were other groups covering the political spectrum from monarchism and conservatism through liberalism to socialism‚ including a small communist movement divided among followers of the Soviet leader
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When a baby boy was born in El Ferrol‚ Spain no one thought he would become the famous ruler of Spain alas he did and everyone soon knew the name Francisco Franco. Franco’s father was an officer in the spanish naval administrative group and his mother was a upper middle class conservative roman catholic. Franco came from four generations of naval officers. From birth it was expected that Franco would also go down the same path. When he was 14 years old he attended a military school and graduated
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Spanish nationalism - is the nationalism asserts that Spaniards are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Spaniards. It has been typically been closely tied to the conceptions of a Castilian-based culture. The Castilian language became the Spanish language. Other expressions of Spanish nationalism have included pan-Iberianism and pan-Hispanism. The origins of Spanish nationalism have been claimed to have begun with theReconquista - beginning with the victory of Catholic forces against Muslim
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in European countries. However‚ not everybody embraced communism‚ namely those who valued their country. Thus‚ an ideology was necessary to counter communism‚ and fascism was that ideology. The hatred of communism is signaled in the ideas of the Falange‚ a fascist Spanish party: “Our spiritual and national sensibilities also lead us to reject Marxism. We shall direct the impetus currently led astray by Marxism‚ in the direction of demanding their direct participation in the great task of the national
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It all started with stating the truth Rizal sapamamagitan his novel. The Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo became the step to increase the curtain to expose to the view that the deceptive words nasalikod government and church. In the novel answered the destructive defamatory allegation to the Filipinos. Stated the poor condition of the Philippines‚ they cry. Because of Rizal’s novel‚ lived in the hearts of the Filipinos their anger at government rebel and achieve independence of the Philippines
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Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War took place in Spain between the years of 1936 to 1939. One side was the Republic who had government control over the country. The opposition was the Nationalists who wanted to overthrow Republic including its leader‚ Manuel Azuna. The Republic made up of urban workers‚ farmers‚ and the educated middle class with the help of the Soviet Union and the International Brigade. Others chose to follow the Nationalist leader‚ Francisco Franco. The people’s motivation
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Spanish Republic‚ who at the time was under the leadership of President Manuel Azaña. The nationalist rebellion was supported by the traditional Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right‚ monarchists known as Carlist groups‚ and the Fascist Falange. Following the military rebellion‚ working-class revolutions extended across the country to help support the Republican government‚ but they were all viciously put down by the army. The Spanish Civil War ended with the victory of the nationalist
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