Francisco Franco

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Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco y Bahamonde and commonly known as General Francisco Franco is a Spanish military commander who was pro-monarch. He ruled his country through the Spanish Flanque or Phalange Party with an iron fist at the end of the Spanish civil war which took place in the 1930s, he was the first to form such kind of party, he established close relationships with fascism and Nazism during World War II. The man was subjected to international isolation after the war in which he emerged, taking advantage of the climate of the Cold War.
Francisco Franco was born on December 4- 1892, in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain, to a middle-class family, his father Nicolás Franco Salgado-Araujo was a violent alcoholic who mistreated his family, he
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In 1935, he was appointed chief of staff in an effort to reform the military but the loss of the Defense minister's election camp drove him back to the Canary Islands to become commander of the military garrison there.
During the reign of Spanish King Alfonso XIII, the conflict erupted between supporters of the monarchy in Spain, and opponents of the call for the abolition of property and the declaration of Republican rule, the elections were held to resolve this conflict in 1931.
The majority voted with the Republican ruling and the abolition of the monarchy, but the king refused to respond to the voice of the people to give up the throne, the Spanish army lifted the protection from him, so he left Spain irreversibly, where he traveled to Rome and completed his life
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In 1941 he sent combat units to fight the Soviet Union on the eastern front. As the balance of power shifted from 1942, Franco went back to neutrality, abandoning the city of Tangier and refusing to cross German forces to Spain, but this did not help him. In 1946, the General Assembly of the United Nations, under the direction of the Soviet Union, called on Member States to withdraw

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