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He led a military coup against the democratically elected government of the Spanish Republic.
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Denied the aid of the democratic powers, the Republic sought and obtained limited help from Soviet Russia and also from a large number of foreign volunteers, but Franco's Nationalists received much more extensive foreign aid in the form of the decisive military assistance of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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The Nationalists won the civil war and Franco became head of state and dictator.
