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MODERN SPAIN
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From 1982 until 1996, the social democratic PSOE governed the country, with Felipe González as prime minister. In 1986, Spain joined the European Economic Community (EEC, now European Union), and the country hosted the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and Sev... |
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TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY OF SPAIN
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The Spanish transition to democracy or new Bourbon restoration was the era when Spain moved from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco to a liberal democratic state. The transition is usually said to have begun with Franco's death on 20 November 1975,... |
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Spain remained officially neutral in World Wars I and II, but suffered through a devastating Civil War (1936-1939) . During Franco's rule, Spain remained largely economically and culturally isolated from the outside world, but began to catch up econo... |
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SPANISH CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN
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In the 1930s, Spanish politics were polarized at the left and right of the political spectrum. The left-wing favored class struggle, land reform, autonomy to the regions and reduction in church and monarchist power. The right-wing groups, the largest... |
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SECOND SPANISH REPUBLIC IN SPAIN
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Under the Second Spanish Republic, women were allowed to vote in general elections for the first time. The Republic devolved substantial autonomy to the Basque Country and to Catalonia.The first governments of the Republic, were center left, headed b... |
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THE RESTORATION IN SPAIN
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Although the former queen, Isabella II was still alive, she recognized that she was too divisive as a leader, and abdicated in 1870 in favor of her son, Alfonso, who was duly crowned Alfonso XII of Spain. After the tumult of the First Spanish Republi... |
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FIRST SPANISH REPUBLIC
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Following the Hidalgo affair, Amadeus famously declared the people of Spain to be ungovernable, and fled the country. In his absence, a government of radicals and Republicans was formed that declared Spain a republic.The republic was immediately unde... |
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SPAIN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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Although the juntas that had forced the French to leave Spain had sworn by the liberal Constitution of 1812, Ferdinand VII openly believed that it was too liberal for the country. On his return to Spain, he refused to swear by it himself, and he cont... |
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WAR OF SPANISH INDEPENDENCE IN SPAIN
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Spain initially sided against France in the Napoleonic Wars, but the defeat of her army early in the war led to Charles IV's pragmatic decision to align with the revolutionary French. Spain was put under a British blockade, and her colonies for the f... |
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SPAIN UNDER THE BOURBONS
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Philip V, the first Bourbon king, of French origin, signed the Decreto de Nueva Planta in 1715, a new law that revoked most of the historical rights and privileges of the different kingdoms that formed the Spanish Crown, specially Crown of Aragon, un... |
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