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Catholic Church was given the control over education through the treaty between Spain and Rome.
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Loss of the last remnant of the Spanish Empire, Cuba
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The Spanish military was overstaffed and overpowered.
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Poverty that the working-class faces resulted in a bloodshed in “Tragic Week”, where the army fired on rebellions.
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Spain was under constitutional monarchy, headed by King Alfonso XIII.
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Spain sustained inefficient and corrupt government.
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Catalonia and Basque wanted their independence.
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A spanish army was massacred to Morocco when it tried putting down a rebellion, such defeat was a further blow upon Spain’s Pride.
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General Primo de Rivera seized control of Spain through a bloodless coup to avoid the collapse of the monarchy.
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Rivera ended the ongoing war in Morocco.
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New public work schemes were introduced by Rivera.
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Industrial production rate tripled.
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Rivera suspended the Cortes (Parliament)
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Industrial production collapse by more than 50%.
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The government separated into Left and Right Wing Republicans, as the former craved rapid social reform to appeal to the working-classes.
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A new Spanish Fascist party (the Falange) was established under Primo’s son, Jose Antonio de Rivera.
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Reforms provoked the military, industrialists, landowners, the Catholic Church - the most superior elements of the society.
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An unsuccessful army coup led by General Sanjuro, was overthrown upon the government led by Manuel Azana.
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The extreme left organised riots in effort to destabilise the government of Azana. This lost the government a great deal of support among the working class and the socialists withdrew their support from the government.
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CEDE (Right-Wing parties) won a vast majority of support and formed a government led by Gil Robles
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Arturia coal miners engaged in a general strike, then was relentlessly abolished by the army led by General Franco.
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The Catalans had their privileges withdrawn and turned against the government.
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The Left-Wing Popular Front coalition won and Azana restored his position as the Prime Minister.
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General Franco assumed control of the military, who then seized control of Spanish Morocco and crossed over into mainland Spain to conquer the government.
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The Spainish Civil War was fought between the Republicans and the Fascists.
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leading Right-Wing politician named Sotelo, was murdered. Right-Wing politicians debated that they were at serious risk of a communist takeover. Consequently, they began to favour the idea of a military dictatorship, possibly led by General Mola.
