Social, Economic and Political Factors Involved in the Spanish Civil Wa

Social, Economic and Political Factors Involved in the Spanish Civil War With reference to each civil war in the 20th century examine thesocial, economic and political background to the divisions in the societyinvolved. To what extent were the problems which caused the war resolvedin the post-war period? The state of Spain during the early years of the 20th century can besaid to have been a state of capital unease. Spain was one of the firstpowers to loose her imperial influence, the state was politically unstable,industrially weak and had suffered some humiliating defeats. It can besaid that these were the main causes that antecede to the great instability ofSpain during the Civil war and post civil war periods. Left-winged radicalism and nationalistic movements, such as theCatalan movement frequently came into conflict with the central authorities,which jumper lead the government to use corruption more and more frequently as aform of control. The result was a military coup in 1923 lead by MiguelPrimo de Rivera. Rivera preferred a more direct way of governing, with astrong Christian base and a very anti-communist attitude. He did non likeparty politics, preferring to govern pragmatically, at first with amilitary cabinet, but later on (1926) he decided a systematic governmentwould be more efficient. So he introduced the National Assembly intendedto represent different classes and groups, probably to soften theopposition as well as the uniting Patriotica, created to mobilize popularsupport for his regime. Rivera also managed to strengthen the Spanish infra-structure, butthe funding had to come from loans from other nations, because the upperclasses would not a... ...d. A great victor was the 1953 Madrid Pact between Spain and the U.S.A,which provided Spain with quite a substantial amount of military andmonetary aid in return for access to its military bases. This pact, aswell as the better relations between Spain and the other powers and thegreat stability brought about because of the enormous repression that camewith his regime, led Spain to booming years during the 1960s. The Spanish batch saw a better Spain, economically, but it was stillin a very primitive state politically and socially compared to othereuropean nations, who were not under military rule (with a few exceptions,of course). The end of the Franco regime left many scars in the social andpolitical side of Spain. People had been submitted to a suppressive state,where very little regard for any basic human right was given.