Feb 12, 2025 · Unlike most rulers of rightist authoritarian regimes, Franco provided for the continuity of his government after his death through an official referendum in 1947 that made the Spanish state a monarchy and ratified Franco’s powers as a sort of regent for life.

During World War II, he maintained Spanish neutrality, but supported the Axis —in recompense to Italy and Germany for their support during the Civil War— damaging the country's international reputation in various ways.

Feb 12, 2025 · Francisco Franco, general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and head of state until his death in 1975.

Francoist Spain (Spanish: España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo. After his death in 1975, Spain transitioned into a democracy.

Nov 9, 2009 · The general and dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and...

Jan 13, 2025 · Francisco Franco, known as "El Caudillo," ruled Spain with an iron fist for nearly four decades following the Spanish Civil War. His authoritarian regime was characterized by the brutal suppression of opposition, with military tribunals leading to tens of thousands of executions and imprisonments in the immediate aftermath of the conflict.

Jun 12, 2024 · Francisco Franco graduated near the bottom of his military class as a second lieutenant at just 17 in 1910. Twenty-six years later, at the start of the Spanish Civil War, Franco was a major general, outranking all of his former classmates.

Francisco Franco (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a dictator for 36 years from 1939 until his death. As a conservative and a monarchist, he opposed the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of …

Apr 2, 2014 · Francisco Franco led a successful military rebellion to overthrow Spain's democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War, subsequently establishing an often brutal dictatorship that defined the ...

The Franco regime sent the Blue Division, made up of nearly 50,000 soldiers who aided the German army, to the Russian front. Once the Second World War was over, the Franco dictatorship was subjected to a hard international isolation by the victorious countries.