Did the regime of Franco had important positive aspects from the point of view the Spanish population?
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Of course.  Let me give you a little history which should clear up the notion of a good dictatorship:\n\nThe overriding need to strengthen the regime determined foreign policy in the first phase of Franco's rule. Weakened by the devastation of civil war, the country could not afford to become involved in a protracted European conflict. Although Franco was deeply indebted to Germany and to Italy for their decisive contribution to his victory over the Republicans, he declared Spain's neutrality in the opening days of World War II. His sympathies, nevertheless, were openly with the Axis powers; he had, in fact, already joined the Anti-Comintern Pact and had signed a secret treaty of friendship with Germany in March 1939. There was genuine enthusiasm for the fascist cause among important elements of the Franco regime, especially the Falange. \n\nSpain altered its policy of neutrality following the lightning success of Germany's 1940 spring offensive. The German armies appeared invincible, and Franco was eager to assure Spain a voice in the postwar settlement. In June 1940, The Spanish government adopted a policy of nonbelligerency, which permitted German submarines to be provisioned in Spanish ports and German airplanes to use Spanish landing strips. This stance was widely interpreted as foreshadowing Spain's entry on the side of the Axis powers; the German Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, and Franco discussed this move on more than one occasion. The two dictators could never come to terms, however. The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 presented Franco with a unique opportunity to participate in the conflict without a declaration of war and to get revenge for the Soviet Union's aid to the Republicans. Franco agreed to a Falangist request for the official formation of a Blue Division of volunteers--which reached a maximum strength of 18,000 men--to fight on the eastern front. Franco still believed that the Axis powers would win the war, and he considered the intervention of Spanish volunteers to be an inexpensive way of assuring recognition of Spain's colonial claims after the war was over. \n\nThe war turned in favor of the Allies with the entry of the United States in December 1941 and the Allied landing in Casablanca in November 1942. At that time, Spain replaced its pro-Axis policy with a genuinely neutral stance. Spain withdrew the Blue Division from the eastern front in November 1943, thus ending Franco's major collaboration with Nazi Germany. In May 1944, Spain and the Allies concluded an agreement. The Spanish government agreed to end wolfram shipments to Germany, to close the German consulate in Tangier, and to expel German espionage agents. In exchange for these actions, the Allies were to ship petroleum and other necessary supplies to Spain. \n\nBy the end of 1944, Spain had entered into a period of "benevolent neutrality" toward the Allies. Spain allowed Allied aircraft to land inside its borders and permitted Allied intelligence agents to operate in Madrid. In spite of this opportunistic policy shift, Spain was ostracized at the end of the war by the victorious powers. Although the United States president, Harry S. Truman, and the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, successfully resisted Stalin's proposals at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945 for Allied intervention against Franco, Spain was denied membership in the United Nations (UN) because its government had come to power with the assistance of the Axis powers and had collaborated with them during the war. \n\nA resolution adopted by the second meeting of the UN General Assembly in December 1946 expressed the most severe postwar censure of the Franco regime. According to this resolution, Spain would be banned from the UN and would not be allowed to participate in any of its specialized agencies, as long as Franco remained in power. Franco did not appear seriously concerned by this censure, nor by the subsequen
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First of all, take a look at the wikipedia link below. It really does have a lot of information concerning the Philips and the War of Succession and why it was important to Spain. Essentially, it was a territorial war. The French Bourbons and the Austrian Hapsburgs both had claim to the Spanish throne, and they both wanted it. The territorial part comes in because the Spanish people didnot want to be governed by either France or Austria. They wanted a Spanish ruler. If they were governed by France or Austria, they would be come provincial territory of whichever country ruled. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/war_of_span...
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Well..it IS a good sign that they came out and said this...\n\nAfter a long, long time..maybe it finally has sunk in that they will not earn independence from Spain..and that they should put their efforts into something positive for all...
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Spain, for the most part.
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The industrial revolution was under way.  \n\nConsiderable numbers of people had moved into urban areas (More than half the population was urban)\n\nGreat Britain was at war with France.
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Josef Stalin (Russia)\nAdolf Hitler (Germany)\nBenito Mussolini (Italy)\nFrancisco Franco (Spain)\n\nFranco defeated the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)and although neutral in WWII,his was a totalitarian government.
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"Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!" cried the media directly implicating Spain after the USS Maine suffered an explosion in Havana harbor killing hundreds of sailors.  Spanish occupation of Cuba was blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cubans.  Media fueled the public sentiment against Spain and the US decided to 'liberate' Cuba from the Spanish and create a free and independent Cuba.  With the US economy languishing, many thought that a war would help the economy.  Thousands were killed during the war.\n\nWith the benefit of modern forensic science, the explosion is now widely believed to have been an accident caused by the spontaneous combustion of gunpowder magazines situated too close to heat sources.\n\nKind of sounds familiar doesn't it?
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Given the following:\n\nA) Non-Catholics were not only seen as heretics, but because church and state were so intertwined, they were also traitors, and\n\nB) People tend to be as harsh and hostile as their environment, and\n\nC) the lack of any real technology made theirs a harsh environment with high mortality rates, and\n\nD) being basically ignorant of any realistic concept of how the universe works, and\n\nE) fearing that divine displeasure would result in the destruction of the realm,\n\nit therefore followed that anyone who rocked the boat was a definite threat to the "natural" order of life.\n\nSo, one removes the threat. It's a matter of survival.\n\nLook at it from THEIR viewpoint. Given what I said, they were actually being rather kind. They gave those accused a chance to recant and save their souls at least. By their lights that was Christian.\n\nDo not judge the past by the mores of the present.\n\nWere it to happen today we would be incensed. I know this because the Muslim fundamentalists are busy doing the same thing, with one exception. They kill you without a trial. And look how we responded to the news that a perfectly nice young man was to be killed for becoming a Christian. We're NOT medievals anymore. Muslim fundamentalists may be, but we're not. We've grown up beyond being scared of the dark.\n\nBTW, it wasn't, strictly speaking, merely Catholic involvement. It was Catholic inspired and Crown ordered. The Inquisition was carried out by members of the clergy, but always under orders from the king.
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Franco was a dictator, whose regim is now called "national catholic" (because some of its caracteristics are different from fascism). I can´t agree with people who find anything good in what he did (he was antidemocratic and made thousands of people die).\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco
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Actually, due to the treaty of Versailles, post WWI Germany was susceptible to many forms of totalitarianism.  There were communist, socialist as well as the group that finally won out, the National Socialist.  While the Nazis sounds like a left leaning organization, they were in fact a right leaning fascist party.  In fact, the Germans had units fighting in Spain, during the Spanish Civil war fighting for Franco and his group.
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Their indepence from Spain.
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fairly good as they were entering hte renaisance and feudalism was declining as a merchant class emerged creating specification in jobs. this left people open to explore other, more creative options, and it brought europe out of the subsistance livng it had been in in the so called "dark ages" or medieval times...this is when the arts were pursued, and actually encouraged to be studied. of course there were wars goign on...like with england as usual(this was the time of henry the 8th, queen mary tudor, and eventually in 1588, elizabeth...) but they were doing fairly well, captureing calais back form the english even...
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Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (pron. IPA : [fran'θisko 'franko]; December 4, 1892 – November 20 (or possibly November 19 [*]) 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco y Bahamonde and commonly known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was the Head of State of Spain in parts of the country from 1936 and in its entirety from 1939 until his death in 1975. He presided over the authoritarian government of the Spanish State following victory in the Spanish Civil War. From 1947, he was de facto regent of Spain. During his rule he was known officially as por la gracia de Dios, Caudillo de España y de la Cruzada, or "by the grace of God, the Leader of Spain and of the Crusade."
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Both. The southern section was largely muslim with European-influenced Catholic populations in the northern regions during the early crusades, though the efforts of the Europeans would result in the spread of Catholicism throughout Spain.
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There wasn't much of a coherent argument. People were scared because of the Panic of 1893 that the US was running out of natural resources and capital, and businesses feared that they would need to have new land to be able to be competitive in the industrial world. The actual expansion that took place was justified by accusations that Spain was abusing its colonies, and so we had a moral obligation to come to their aid, but that's clearly not why we went to war with Spain.
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Francisco Franco took leadership of a country totally ruined by civil war The big problem was that he was a totalitarian dictator and held the people in hi "fist" for all those years, instead of allowing the country to modernize and be prosperous.\nI was assigned in Spain on 2 tours (4 and 3 years), and came here to live when we retired from active duty in 1974. There is absolutely NO similarity between Spain in 1974 and now, except the customs and language.\nBut all the progress has taken some toll too. The cost of property in this country for example, just as in most of Europe, is very high. What people would buy for $70,000 in the U.S. would cost at least triple that here. And the wage levels have not kept up.\nThere are certain aspects of life here that very positive, ans a few that are quite negative.\nImpact?  I guess you could just say that Spain was held back for something over 45 years, and is just now starting to really catch up.
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Well ok to answer your precise question, the most good would have to be in the areas of eliminating corruption and the progression of women... women gained the right to vote during this period.\n\nNow with that said, I have some arguments with the progressive era that I won't spend 4 hours writing about but suffice to say, I am of the opinion, some of the progressive movements changes caused the Great Depression less than 10 years later.