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the second spanish republic was proclaimed and a provisional government made up of the winning Republican-socialist coalition took over -
The new Constitution laid the foundations for a progressive, democratic republic. It did not have the support of conservative groups who dissented on social, religious and regional issues
defined Spain as an integral state, established uniiversal suffrage for both men and women, proclaimed Spain a non-confessional (secular) state, included a declaration of individual rights and established extensive public and personal freedoms. -
In some parts of Spain, especially in Andalusia and
Extremadura, there were hundreds of thousands of landless workers living in extreme poverty, while property was concentrated in the hands of a few hundred landowners -
One of the objectives of the Second Republic was to promote equality between men and women.
Coeducation was introduced, allowing men and women to be educated equally in the same schools. During the Second Republic, 13000 new primary schools and 30 new secondary schools were opened and many teaching positions were created. Almost all of them were occupied by women -
The decentralisation of government was also initiated. This process, which was established by the Constitution, recognised the existence of historical nationalities with their own language and identity and allowed regions to develop statutes of autonomy and establish autonomous governments. -
The Second Republic undertook some reforms that had been pending for decades and were essential to modernise the country and establish, the republic begins to reform the army, the separation of church and state and territorial reform -
The Spanish Falange, was a Spanish political fascism party founded in 1933 by José Antonio Primo de Rivera. -
The Casas Viejas incident was criticised and divided the parties of the Republican-socialist coalition. CNT members and socialists denounced the government's authoritarianism
Left-wing Republicans appeared divided in the run-up to the elections, while the conservatives joined the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (CEDA) -
Constitution of 1931 recognised for the first time in Spain the right of women to vote. Conservatives opposed the vote for women because they considered women's place in society to be the home, reserving public affairs for men. -
The Generalitat proclaimed the Catalan state within the Spanish Federal Republic. Both movements were severely repressed by the government, resulting in many casualties and detentions in Asturias. In Catalonia, the Statute was suspended and the government imprisoned. -
the people of Barcelona made a revolution because of the catalan politics that were prisioners -
The Popular Front's election triumph was badly received by the most conservative sectors of society, who opposed the process of democratisation and reform begun by Republican politicians in 1931. At the same time, some unions and left-wing groups defended the idea of staging a social revolution. José Sanjurjo in Portugal made contact with extreme right groups and began to organise a
coup. -
The Popular Front won the elections by a narrow margin. The government was taken over by Azaña's Republicans and he was appointed prime minister in May. Santiago Casares Quiroga took over as head of the government.