The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that pitted the Republican government against Spanish Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco from 1936-1939. Families were torn apart as people took sides.

He joined a military coup, fought ruthlessly in the Spanish Civil War, and emerged as the dictator of Spain. For almost 40 years, Franco worked to transform the country into a bastion of tradition.

An estimated 500,000 people died in the civil war, which left Spain as a dictatorship under the rule of the Fascist General Francisco Franco ... to accept a Spanish passport.

Smithsonian Folkways is re-releasing its classic catalog of songs about the Spanish Civil War. Smithsonian Folkways ... “Los Cuatro Generales,” about Franco and the fascist generals who ...

He is wearing the red beret associated with the Carlist soldiers who fought on Franco’s side in the 1936-1939 civil war. He adds that ... As the Spanish government seeks to remedy what many ...

At the Cuelgamuros Valley mausoleum, which served as Franco's tomb until 2019 and ... without ever having studied either the Spanish Civil War or the Francoist dictatorship during their education.

The Valley of the Fallen, inaugurated in 1959, is a monumental complex built after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939 ... Francisco Franco, Spain’s longtime head of state and leader of the ...