Franco

By Kaitlin.Jones

  • First Step

    First Step
    He led a military coup against the democratically elected government of the Spanish Republic.

  • Second Step.

    Second Step.
    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.

  • Third Step

    Third Step
    The Nationalists won the civil war and Franco became head of state and dictator.