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Franquism and transition

  • "El fuero de trabajo"

    "El fuero de trabajo"

    It was one of the eight laws of the Franquism. It mainly established the control over the work conditions and the laboral relations. The law prohibited unions of workers and strikes, because this would have meant that the people had more rights and would have been perjudicial to the dictatorship's integrity, because the unions may have done some riots supported by a lot of workers of different sectors.
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    The first years of the Franquism

    During the first years of Francoism, the Second World War was developing in the world, which also greatly influenced the ideas within the Franco dictatorial regime and the principles of Francoism itself. Spain suffered a fastización that had already been present in a lesser way during the civil war. In 1945-1950, Spain was isolated internationally (for sharing similar ideas to Nazi Germany during World War II), but thanks to the arrival of the Cold War, it was re-incorporated in global aspects.
  • Meeting in Hendaya

    Meeting in Hendaya

    Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco met, along with their foreign ministers, at the conference in Hendaye (France). The main point of this meeting was to solve the disagreements of the Spainish Conditions to enter the Second World War supporting Hitler and the Fascist ideologies.
  • Constitutional Law of the Cortes

    Constitutional Law of the Cortes

    The Constitutional Law of the Cortes was one of the eight Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom. It tried to give a parlamentarist appearance to the dictatorship, to gain more trust of different sectors of the people.
    It established a Chamber elected by Franco and indirect suffrage which had no power. In this chamber the only things people did was deliberate about the drafts of the laws and try to propose the better versions of them.
  • "El fuero de los Españoles"

    "El fuero de los Españoles"

    It was also one of the eight Fundamental Laws of the Franquism.
    In this one, the rights, freedoms and duties of every Spanish person were stablished.
  • National Referendum Law

    National Referendum Law

    It was also one of the eight Fundamental Laws of the Franquism.
    This one established the chance the head of estate had to put under referendum the law projects approved by the Courts.
    It also allowed the Head of the State to submit to popular query the things that he considered oportune, it did not matter what they were
  • Law of Succession to the Head of State

    Law of Succession to the Head of State

    The Law of Succession to the Head of State was the fifth of the eight Fundamental Laws of Franquism. This law indicated that Francisco Franco was going to be the head of state until his death and that, when the time came, he could indicate a successor. It also defined his dictatorial regime as a kingdom (of which he is supposed to be the king).
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    Consolidation of the regime and developmentalism

  • Law of Fundamental Principles of the Movement

    Law of Fundamental Principles of the Movement

    This one is another one of the eight Laws of the Fundamental Laws of Franquism.
    The ideals of the movement were pretty simple. They consisted in the family, fatherland and religion... Also the maximum respect for the Fundamental Laws and to the Franquist regime. It was issued by Franco and was approved officialy by the Courts
  • State Organic Law

    State Organic Law

    The State's Organic Law separated the figure of the Head of the State and the Head of the Government.
    It was the seventh Fundamental Law of Franquism, which culminated the institutionalizationof the regime, and it ensuerd the perdurability of the regime after Franco's Death.
  • End of International Isolation of Spain

    End of International Isolation of Spain

    International isolation was detrimental to Spain, because in most cases it was very difficult to make treaties with other countries, because Spain had had ties with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
    The arrival of the Cold War allowed this isolation to decrease, and Spain positioned itself on the anti-communist side, which allowed it to join more international relations. This was thanks to a resolution of the UN General Assembly of 1946
  • Juan Carlos I is named successor

    Juan Carlos I is named successor

    Franco desginated Juan Carlos of the Bourbon family as his successor of the State's Leadership.This granted that his ideas will remain in time even though Francisco Franco dies at some point.
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    End of the dictatorship

    The oposition was the set of political and social movements that opposed the Franquism since the end of the Spanish civil war. The main groups that opposed were: The Spanish Democratic Alliance.
    The anarchists.
    The communists.
    The socialists.
    The maquis (anti-Franco guerrilla).
    When in 1973 an economic crisis broke out and tourists stopped arriving... it produced too much social discontent and increased strikes, which led to the withdrawal of the regime.
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    Transition

    It is a period in the contemporary history of Spain in which the process was carried out by which the country left behind the dictatorial regime of General Francisco Franco and came to be governed by a Constitution that restored democracy
  • Francisco Franco's Death

    Francisco Franco's Death

    Francisco Franco died, which meant that the ruler that had established the longest dictatorship in Spain was no longer alive.
    This also meant that people could move on and start making changes on the regime and policies Franco had established before.
    The main political parties in the Transition were the: UCD (Unión de Centro Democrático), PSOE, AP (Alianza Popular) and PCE (Partido Comunista de España). This political parties had a lot of influence and made changes on the manners of ruling.
  • Juan Carlos named King of Spain

    Juan Carlos named King of Spain

    He was the first Spanish King after the dicatorship of Francisco Franco, which helped the country to get rid of the policies that were harmfull to the citizens living in this society.
  • Law of Political Reform

    Law of Political Reform

    It was a law that allowed to get rid of some Franquist political structures like the eight Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom, by a juridic point of view.
  • First elections after Franco's government

    First elections after Franco's government

    After the majorist endorsement of the Spanish Peoples to the Constitution of 1978, the first elections were called, which meant that this was a step forward to the democracy, the freedom and the rights of all the citizens after the vast dictatorship.
    The winner of the elections was Adolfo Suarez, with a majority among the others, and the second most voted asociation was the PSOE.
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    The PSOE governments

    Developed a policy aimed, on the one hand, at deepening and establishing democracy and, on the other hand, at promoting an important series of reforms, among which the professionalization of the Armed Forces, the full functionality of the State of the Autonomies, the educational reform,the measures of economic recovery and the promotion of modernizing legislation on issues such as the decriminalization of abortion and women's equality. this created a new climate of confidence in the institutions
  • Entry of Spain in the EEC

    Entry of Spain in the EEC

    Spain entered in the EEC (European Economic Comunities) with Felipe González signing the treaty of accesion in june of 1985, but it entered in vigor the first of january of 1986.
    Spain did not enter before in the UE because of the economic structure of the country, which were not the same as the ones planned in the EEC.