Long term problems
The invasion by this French leader started the Peninsular War, prompting many Spanish colonies to rebel.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Primo de Rivera established control of Spain with the support primarily of this group.
What is the mililtary?
These two regions had strong autonomy or independence movements.
What are the Basque Country and Catalonia?
This was the group of Spanish troops largely based in Morocco.
Who are the Africanistas?
Spain lost a war with this country in 1898.
What is the United States?
Primo de Rivera promoted this young military leader to the rank of general.
Who is Francisco Franco?
The CNT or anarcho-syndicalists were very popular in this southern region where most of the population were landless peasants.
What is Andalucia?
These countries helped airlift Franco's troops from Morocco to launch the invasion.
What are Italy and Germany?
The "great liberator" who led revolutions against Spain in Latin America.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
Name for a series of 19th century civil wars, named for one of member of the royal family.
What are the Carlist wars?
Primo de Rivera outlawed this political party.
What is the CNT?
The prime minister who led a broad leftist coalition in 1930?
Who is Miguel Azaña?
These two countries provided support to the Loyalists.
What are Mexico and the Soviet Union?
The month in 1937 when infighting between the CNT and center-left groups reached a peak in Barcelona.
What is May?
The Latin term for large holders of farmland, usually aristocrats.
What is latifundia?
The year in which Primo de Rivera took power.
What is 1923?
The political party of Gil Robles, right-wing leader from 1933-36.
Who is Gil Robles?
Britain and France attempted to establish neutrality in the war by establishing this.
What is the Non Intervention Committee?
1936 agreement signed by Hitler and Mussolini in part due to collaboration in the Spanish Civil War.
What is the Rome-Berlin Axis?
This was the final King of Spain before the Second Republic.
Following Mussolini's Corporatism, Primo de Rivera established this group to ban strikes and control workers.
What is the National Economic Council?
Right-wing leader and former finance minister assassinated by Leftists in 1936, helping to spark the Civil War.
Who is José Calvo Sotelo?
The name of the Luftwaffe division that bombed the village of Guernica.
What is the Condor Legion?
This school of historian believes the Second Republic was doomed and needed to be replaced entirely.
What are catastrophists?