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  • What is a coup?
    When a person or a group of people overthrows the government using military force
  • How was the situation in Spain after the Civil War?
    Spain was isolated, in a economic crisis and people did not have houses, food or basic things.
  • Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró were painters from the ...
    Surrealism
  • Which two sides were there in the Civil War?
    Republicans and Nationalists
  • Name 2 examples of coup
    Primo de Rivera, Franco or Antonio Tejero's coup
  • Put in order: Zapatero, Suárez, Aznar, González, Calvo Sotelo, Sánchez, Rajoy
    1.Suárez 2.Calvo Sotelo 3.González 4.Aznar 5.Zapatero 6.Rajoy 7.Sánchez
  • Who was the president of the Second Republic?
    Niceto Alcalá Zamora
  • In which year was the democratic Constitution after Franco established?
    In 1978
  • What did Franco establish after the Civil War?
    A dictatorship
  • Where did people move to in the 60s?
    To the urban areas (cities)
  • In which year did Spain become a member of the United Nations?
    In 1955
  • Who reigned Spain while Alfonso XIII was under age?
    María Cristina, his mother
  • Pablo Picasso painted the ...
    Guernica
  • What happened the 14th April 1931?
    The Second Spanish Republic
  • When did the Spanish Civil War started and ended?
    1936 and 1939
  • Who was the first President of the democracy?
    Adolfo Suárez
  • Name 3 characteristics of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship
    Abolished the Constitution / Banned political parties and labour unions / Dissolved Parliament / Limited freedom for people / Asked other militars to help him
  • Which car became popular in the 70s?
    SEAT 600
  • Name 3 characteristics of Franco's dictatorhip
    The Constitution was abolished / Political parties and labour unions were banned / Franco had all power / Censorship established / Revoked Statutes of Autonomy
  • In 1931 with the new Constitution women could vote. True or False?
    True
  • Why did Spain recover economically in the 60s - 70s?
    Because of tourism. Tourists brought money to Spain.
  • What was the Transition?
    The period after Franco died, when Spain started to become a democracy
  • When did Franco die? (day, month, year)
    20th November 1975