Second Spanish Republic

Hugo Chavez was president of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013. If it was not for his death due to cancer, he would probably still be president of the country. He was known to be a very charismatic, ambitious, and a strong leader that many loved him immensely. Even people who are usually under represented in most Latin American countries such as women or natives followed him. In “Barrio Women and Popular Politics in Chavez’s Venezuela” by Sujatha Fernandes, the author talks about the many ways Chavez…

The French Revolutions applications were endless, and a country that this was prevalent in was Switzerland. “It proclaimed the equality of citizens before the law, equality of languages, freedom of thought and faith; it created a Swiss citizenship, basis of our modern nationality, and the separation of powers, of which the old regime had no conception; it suppressed internal tariffs and other economic restraints; it unified weights and measures, reformed civil and penal law, authorized mixed…

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…

different cultural governments; from the French, Spanish, Mexican, Republic of Texas, Statehood, Civil War era, and finally the Reconstruction period. Texas was a place where explorers came to establish and claim new territory. From the first site of over 30,000 roaming Native Americans to Congress voting to make Texas a part of the Union when the state became the twenty-eighth state in the U.S. Through it all Texas has been very resilient. Texas is the second largest state consisting of…

military family, Franco’s father was an officer in the Spanish Naval Administrative Corps while his mother was a conservative Roman Catholic. Franco knew from an early age that…

George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia portrays the revolutionary struggle of a united Spanish Republic against Fascist rebellion in Europe during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. Orwell, a member of the Worker` Party of Marxist Unity (POUM), joins the war to fight against members of the Fascist regime. Over the course of the war he accounts each soldier’s ambivalence for camaraderie among fellow soldiers. In addition, for the dirty, cold, stench, physically discomforting feeling that…

Spanish Patriotism: Exploring the Causes and Effects of the Spanish Civil War In the 1900s, Spain encountered various international difficulties which included the commencement of nationalistic and communistic ideological repertoire. The Spanish Civil War started in Morocco when a unit of the Spanish militia commanded by General Francisco Franco, challenged the appointed Republican government. Manuel Azaña, the presiding officer of Spain, did not have lucid commitments with other supporting…

Republic of Colombia’s Culture On 20 July 1810, the Republic of Colombia was established; when three countries emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia. Forty six million people make up the population of Colombia, made up of mostly Mestizo ethnicity. In most cultures, the national religion is Roman Catholic with the national language being Spanish. Considered as a republic that follows a democratic structure; though, the governments known to be corrupt from the influence of the drug…

The first thing the newly elected Spanish government did was draft a constitution. However in this constitution the government wrote some controversial things. They passed acts that stripped power from the military, church, and property owning elites. Many people opposed these acts throughout…

anticipated for the pseudo-armistice to vanish so another attempt for European hegemony (and ultimately) global mastery could begin. Thus, this was the fundamental basis for both the Bourbon Monarchy (France) and the Habsburg Empire (Austria) in The War of Spanish Succession. Moreover, the desire to attain Spain would lead to an global war, where a myriad of nations each beholding their own motives, endeavored to either restore the quasi-peace that Europe had possessed, or plummet into another…