History 1404E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Carol Ii Of Romania, Cordon Sanitaire, Ion Antonescu
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New republic divided on many things and had alienated the spanish military. Led to a military coup led by general francisco franco (1872-1975: had the uno cial backing of the fascists and the nazi"s, a lot of violence. Franco established falange: before the war, falange was a party that wanted to establish an authoritarian state like italy, franco absorbed the franco group into his. Caudillo leader of spain by the grace of god : looking back to the spanish past, spain"s kings, wanted to make spain the most catholic system in the world, neutral during the second world war. Hitler tried his best to get spain to declare war on britain. Greece communists gained seats and power in the government, that was too much for the greek military so they took power from the government. General ioannis metals (1871-1941) came to dictatorship in 1936. Used the style elements of fascism and nazism but not the ideologies.
