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In the agreement between the holy see of the catholic church
and the soveriegn state of spain and rome (the concordat), the
catholic church had control over education -
The spanish military was too powerful and had too manypeople after the the loss of the last remnant of the spanish empire,cuba.
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Because of poverty, it led to the bloodshed of the working classes/pheasants in 'Tragic Week'when the army fired on protesters
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Spain was a constituional monarchy along with King Aflonso XIII.Spain was politcally corrupt and bad with the Catalonia and Basque regions wanting independence
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Attempting to put down a Morrocan rebellion, a spanish army was massacred- dealing a further blow to the spanish pride
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General Primo de Rivera took over Spain in a bloodless coup to
protect the monarchy. He was to rule unitl 1930. -
Rivera eneded the Morrocan battle and introduced public
work shemes(e.g. roads and railways). There was three times
the industrial production. He suspended the Cortes Parliament by
trialing with the freedom of speech. -
Spain was greatly affected by the Great Depression. Unemployment went up, agriculture prices dropped, industrial production
went down by 50% -
With the lack of army support, Rivera resigned as government leader
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Elections were held and major cities voted for a republic country.
The king abdicated to avoid a civil war.The government was
split into left and right replubicans. One wanted to change
the social classes to help the proletariat, while the other
opposed the church, landowners(rich) and military. -
-Catalonia has part self government
-Army officers retire early with half pay
-Church Jesuits expelled, school RE banned, divorce allowed
-Large lands were nationilised -
General Sanjuro led an amry coup with the prime minister Manuel Azana
to overthrow the government. But they failed with the military
being loyal to the government who won the elections fairly. -
The republic offends the right-
The Ceda politcal party was formed to protect the interest of
the Roman catholic church and landlords
The replubic offends the left-
the powerful anarchists and syndicalists(trade union groups) felt
that Azana's government was too moderate.
Both wanted to overthrow capitalism. -
-Military, industrialists, landowners and the catholic church
were angered by the reform
-With help of the facists, they made a spanish facists party
called the Falange under the son of Primo, Jose Antonio de Rivera -
-The extreme left rioted and striked against the government
-25 people killed by government near Cadiz while catching anarchists
-The government lose support from working class and lost total
support from socialists -
-The Azana government was no more and so were their reforms
-CEDA political part got the majority support, thus a government led by Gil Robles was formed.They held power for what the left called
"two black years" -
-Austrian coal miners strike were ruthlessly put down by General Franco's army.
-Spain was becoming chaotic.
-The Catalans turned against the government and had their priviliges
withdrawn -
-General election to restore order brought Azana back to government
(left wing popular front coalition)
-Right wing formed the national coaltition in reaction= more polarisation
-Socialists withdrew support as a protest to the moderate popular front government
-Public disturbances happened as the country started heading into chaos -
-Leading right wing politician Sotelo was murdered.
-The right wing agrued that were about to seriously become communist
-In favour of a general dictatorship, led by General Mol -
-General Franco took control of the military, Spanish Morocco and mainland Spain's government.
-The civil war began
