WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Who was Francisco Franco? Francisco Franco was a general and the leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and the head of state until his death in 1975.

Detailed explanation-2: -Franco [1892-1975] was the military dictator who put down a socialist revolution in Spain with consummate skill. He played off royalists, Falangists and ambitious military rivals, eventually handing Spain over to a democratic monarchy. Franco was not a ‘fascist’. Fascists are born in and of Socialism.

Detailed explanation-3: -He went on to create the first stable dictatorship in Spain’s history, surviving World War II and remaining in power until he died of natural causes in 1975, having defeated all comers for nearly four decades.