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SPANISH CIVIL WAR – Part One
One night, from 13 to 14 April 1931, Spain changed. The history of Spain is indeed not plain, and actions that happened twelve centuries ago still resound in the vast plains of La Mancha, and are still debated in both bars and schools around the country. The 19th century was an era of depression and political corruption. Even when the people decided to exile the Bourbons, and welcome a foreign and more democratic king, he renounced and a short Republic was followed by the return of the Bourbonic monarchy under Alfonso XII and Alfonso XIII. In the 20th century, Spain was no longer an Empire. Alfonso XIII had failed to maintain the colonies, and Morocco was unstable. General Primo de Rivera would perform a dictatorship with the consent of the king from 1923 until his natural death in 1930. And then, after failed attempts of rebellion, regular elections were summoned the 12 April 1931. What first was supposed to be municipal elections were interpreted by the people as a plebiscite and, since the Republican candidacies gained the majority, the city councils declared the Second Spanish Republic. The Second Spanish Republic was an unstable time. The first period was a period of lefts, which with difficulties carried out various reforms and the declaration of freedoms, such as religious. It was followed by two conservative years, which stopped the reforms and re-distributed power between the clergy and the bourgeoisie. And then, in another night of 1936 that would change Spain forever, the Popular Front won the elections
Amplifications: It is widely accepted by the Academics that one cannot properly speak of “Spain” as a country or nation until 1715, when the absolutist French king Felipe V was appointed ruler of Spain after defeating opposing forces in the War of the Spanish Succession. Before this unification, Historians talk of “Hispanic monarchy”, because the feeling of a united Spain was concealed under the union of different kingdoms (Castile, and Aragon, and eventually Portugal), with different laws, customs and institutions. The turning point of 1715 marked the destruction of the laws, institutions, statues, and rulers on the Crown of Aragon, when Castile’s centralization powers were introduced by force instead. The years passed, but the memory in both sides did not. The monarchical power increased decade by decade, and, after the plane Spaniards expelled the French troops during the Peninsular War, the Illustrated ideals were straitened by the Bourbonic authorities. Concerning the controversial Elections of 1936, where a historian pointed to fraud, these investigations have been partially denied and described as biased, since several cases of manipulation are known in both parties, but especially in the conservative, which would not have changed the results at all. Historians of all political sensibilities such as Hugh Thomas, Broué and Témine, Bolloten, Catell, Malefakis, Abella, Aróstegui, Javier Tusell, Stanley G. Payne, Edward Hallett Carr, Juan Pablo Fusi, Santos Juliá, Tuñón de Lara, Ángel Viñas and others, admit the electoral victory of the Republican left. Caption: Proclamation of the Spanish Rpeublic, 14/04/1936, Alfonso Sánchez Portela.
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SPANISH CIVIL WAR – Part One
One night, from 13 to 14 April 1931, Spain changed. The history of Spain is indeed not plain, and actions that happened twelve centuries ago still resound in the vast plains of La Mancha, and are still debated in both bars and schools around the country. The 19th century was an era of depression and political corruption. Even when the people decided to exile the Bourbons, and welcome a foreign and more democratic king, he renounced and a short Republic was followed by the return of the Bourbonic monarchy under Alfonso XII and Alfonso XIII. In the 20th century, Spain was no longer an Empire. Alfonso XIII had failed to maintain the colonies, and Morocco was unstable. General Primo de Rivera would perform a dictatorship with the consent of the king from 1923 until his natural death in 1930. And then, after failed attempts of rebellion, regular elections were summoned the 12 April 1931. What first was supposed to be municipal elections were interpreted by the people as a plebiscite and, since the Republican candidacies gained the majority, the city councils declared the Second Spanish Republic. The Second Spanish Republic was an unstable time. The first period was a period of lefts, which with difficulties carried out various reforms and the declaration of freedoms, such as religious. It was followed by two conservative years, which stopped the reforms and re-distributed power between the clergy and the bourgeoisie. And then, in another night of 1936 that would change Spain forever, the Popular Front won the elections
Amplifications: It is widely accepted by the Academics that one cannot properly speak of “Spain” as a country or nation until 1715, when the absolutist French king Felipe V was appointed ruler of Spain after defeating opposing forces in the War of the Spanish Succession. Before this unification, Historians talk of “Hispanic monarchy”, because the feeling of a united Spain was concealed under the union of different kingdoms (Castile, and Aragon, and eventually Portugal), with different laws, customs and institutions. The turning point of 1715 marked the destruction of the laws, institutions, statues, and rulers on the Crown of Aragon, when Castile’s centralization powers were introduced by force instead. The years passed, but the memory in both sides did not. The monarchical power increased decade by decade, and, after the plane Spaniards expelled the French troops during the Peninsular War, the Illustrated ideals were straitened by the Bourbonic authorities. Concerning the controversial Elections of 1936, where a historian pointed to fraud, these investigations have been partially denied and described as biased, since several cases of manipulation are known in both parties, but especially in the conservative, which would not have changed the results at all. Historians of all political sensibilities such as Hugh Thomas, Broué and Témine, Bolloten, Catell, Malefakis, Abella, Aróstegui, Javier Tusell, Stanley G. Payne, Edward Hallett Carr, Juan Pablo Fusi, Santos Juliá, Tuñón de Lara, Ángel Viñas and others, admit the electoral victory of the Republican left. Caption: Proclamation of the Spanish Rpeublic, 14/04/1936, Alfonso Sánchez Portela.
#historiansunion #colored #colorized #colourised #colorization #colourisation #color #colour #history #military #ww1 #wwi #worldwarone #greatwar #thegreatwar #ww2 #wwii #worldwartwo #military #war #warfare #allies #axis #spanishcivilwar #guerracivilespañola #franco #franciscofranco #cassowaryscw