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Women had no independence
could be given away in an arranged marriage
single women were not allowed out with out a chaparone. They worked from dusk till dawn and were given a daily wage of 1.5 peseas -
Major international media attention follows Mohandas Gandhi's peaceful resistance movement against British colonial rule in India
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1930s was a dynamic period in Spanish history, characterized by the rise of fascism, spread of communism and economic hard times brought on by the Depression. All within the span of a decade, the people of Spain saw the fall of the monarchy, witnessed the declaration of the Second Republic, were divided by a civil war, and lived under two dictatorships.
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The Spanish monarchy abdicates and Spain becomes a republic
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The republic Government brought in 8 hour days, meaning women could be at home to cook and clean at 5pm. Also the government introduced limited divorce giving the women the right to vote and some limited maternity leave.
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Anything Goes, makes its debut on broadway and has since been revived several times.
"Anything Goes," "You're the Top," and "I Get a Kick Out of You." These are all songs written into the show itself. It was written by Cole Porter. -
"Swing" music starts becoming popular (from 1935 onward). It gradually replaces the sweet form of Jazz that had been popular for the first half of the decade.
Radio becomes dominant mass media in industrial nations -
Spanish Civil War occured. Germany and Italy back anti-communist nationalist forces of Francisco Franco. The Soviet Union backs the left-wing replican faction in the war. The was ends in April 1939 with Franco's nationalist forces defeating the republican forces.
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Just before the military coup in May 1936 two small groups of anarchist women from Madrid and Barcelona merged to form the Mujeres Libres (free women) organisation. Many were killed on the front line in the battle for Madrid. There were changes in work, leisure and attitudes towards women.
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Civil war errupts in Spain as the army mutinies against the republican government.
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German planes bomb the basque city of Guernica, the world is horrified by the loss of civilian life.
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The Spanish Civil War ends with the fall of barcelona to the fascists under the general Franco. In the end over 500,000 people were killed in this war, and the result of the war was a dictatorship in Spain that lasted into the 1970's
