Francoist Spain
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Francoist Spain, also known as Nationalist Spain, Falangist Spain, the Franco regime, or the Franco dictatorship, officially the Spanish State, was a state established in Nationalist-held territories
Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler at the Meeting at Hendaye, 1940
Franco and U.S. President Gerald Ford riding in a ceremonial parade in Madrid, 1975
Armed forces in San Sebastián, 1942
Francoist demonstration in Salamanca in 1937
Second Spanish Republic
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The Spanish Republic, commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic, was the democratic government of Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931 after the deposition of King
Francoist Spain
…the Falange Española de las JONS, then led by Manuel Hedilla, who had succeeded José Antonio Primo de Rivera, who was executed in November 1936 by the Republican government. He merged it with the Carlist Comunión Tradicionalista to form the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS. The sole legal party of Francoist…
Allegory of the Spanish Republic, displaying republican symbolism such as the Phrygian cap and the motto Libertad, Igualdad, Fraternidad
República Española (1931) by Teodoro Andreu
General José Sanjurjo, the leader of the failed 1932 military coup. Having been granted amnesty in 1934 by the right-wing government of the Republic, he was one of the leaders of the 1936 coup.
Workers arrested by the Guardia Civil and Guardia de Asalto during the Asturian miners' strike of 1934