23 Facts About Francoist Spain

The 1937 Unification Decree, which merged all parties supporting the rebel side, led to Nationalist Francoist Spain becoming a single-party regime under the FET y de las JONS.

Nevertheless, Francoist Spain supported them in various ways throughout most of the war while maintaining its neutrality as an official policy of "non-belligerence".

Reforms were implemented in the 1950s and Francoist Spain abandoned autarky, reassigned authority from the Falangist movement, which had been prone to isolationism, to a new breed of economists, the technocrats of Opus Dei.

Francoist Spain restored the monarchy before his death and made his successor King Juan Carlos I, who would lead the Spanish transition to democracy.

Francoist Spain merged it with the Carlist Comunion Tradicionalista to form the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista y de las JONS.

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The sole legal party of Francoist Spain, it was the main component of the Movimiento Nacional .

Large numbers of those captured were returned to Francoist Spain or interned in Nazi concentration camps as stateless enemies.

On 26 July 1947, Francoist Spain was declared a kingdom, but no monarch was designated until in 1969 Franco established Juan Carlos of Bourbon as his official heir-apparent.

Francoist Spain initiated the country's subsequent transition to democracy, ending with Spain becoming a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament and autonomous devolved governments.

Francoist Spain was not even required to consult his cabinet for most legislation.

In 1973, due to old age and to lessen his burdens in governing Francoist Spain he resigned as Prime Minister and named Navy Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco to the said post, but Franco remained as the Chief of State, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Jefe del Movimiento .

Francoist Spain attempted to retain control of the last remnants of its colonial empire throughout Franco's rule.

Under Franco, Francoist Spain pursued a campaign to gain sovereignty of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar and closed its border in 1969.

The Francoist Spain regime has been described by other scholars as a "Fascismo a la espanola" or as a specific variant of Fascism marked by the preponderance of the Catholic Church, the Armed Forces and Traditionalism.

Francoist Spain held the post for 12 years, during which he finished the task of purging the ministry begun by the Commission of Culture and Teaching headed by Jose Maria Peman.

Francoist Spain had no particular desire for a king because of his strained relations with the legitimist heir to the Crown, Juan of Bourbon.

The lawyer Jaime Guzman, once a student of Eyzaguirre, helped establishing the Francoist Spain-influenced Guildist Movement at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in the 1960s.

Many Spanish children grew up believing the war was fought against foreigners and the painter Julian Grau Santos has said "it was instilled in me and I always believed that Francoist Spain had won the war against foreign enemies of our historic greatness".

Francoist Spain became the second-fastest-growing economy in the world, alongside Brazil and just behind Japan.

At the time of Franco's death, Francoist Spain still lagged behind most of Western Europe, but the gap between its GDP per capita and that of the major Western European economies had greatly narrowed.

In world terms, Francoist Spain was already enjoying a fairly high material standard of living with basic but comprehensive services.

However, the period between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s was to prove difficult as in addition to the oil shocks to which Francoist Spain was highly exposed, the settling of the new political order took priority over the modernising of the economy.

The resolution urged to provide public access to historians to the various archives of the Francoist Spain regime, including those of the Fundacion Francisco Franco, which as well as other Francoist Spain archives remain as of 2006 inaccessible to the public.