II Republic

Nota:

• Read classbook page 183

1. Prepare the new order
   1. Provisional Government
2. "Ditablanda"
   1. Elections 12 April 1931
      1. King's abdicaton (Alfonso XIII run to the exile)

         Nota:

         • Read classbook page 184
         1. Proclamation of II Republic

1. 1931
   1. Reformist Bienium
      1. Niceto Alcalá Zamoraas the president
         1. Manuel Azaña as the prime minister
2. 1933
   1. Conservative Bienium "Rectificador"
      1. Niceto Alcalá Zamora as the Presindent
         1. Alexandre Lerroux the Prime Minister
3. 1936
   1. Popular Front
      1. Manuel Azaña as the President
         1. Casares Quiroga the Prime Minister

1. Provisional Government
   1. Reformist Plan, according wtih Pact of San Sebastian
      1. Elections, june 1931
         1. Republican an socialist coalition won
            1. Constitution

               Nota:

               • Read classbook page 185
            2. Reforms
            3. Reforms

               Nota:

               • Tried to modernisate Spain Read the document below
            4. Social Conflicts
               1. Sanjurjo's Coup
                  1. Right wing violence
                     1. Ocupation of land by peasants
                        1. Casas Viejas, stoped by Assault Gard
                           1. The government punished by public opinion

                              Nota:

                              • The government coalition was broken
                              1. Elections 1933
                                 1. Right Parties Coalition won
                                    1. CONSERVATIVE BIENIUM
                                       1. Alexandre Lerroux, radical republican
                                          1. CEDA of Gil Robles Ultraconservator
                                       2. Stoped and abolished all the reforms
                                       3. Amnistie for the rebels
                                       4. Main Problems
                                          1. Add diputees form CEDA to the government
                                          2. Revolution of Asturias

                                             Nota:

                                             • Read pag 190, demands of working classes in Asturias
                                             1. Franco, the Moor Guard and the Guardia Civil repress the movement
                                          3. Catalunya declared the independence
                                             1. The Estatute was suspended
                                          4. Political Corruption
                                             1. Elections 1936
                                                1. Left Wing Coalition even radical parties
                                                2. POPULAR FRONT won
                                                   1. Threat by right wing movements
                                                      1. The suspection of an uprising
                                                         1. Sanjurjo, Mola, Franco and Goded was separated far away from Madrid

                                                            Nota:

                                                            • Mola began the planification of a new coup José Calvo Sotelo (ultraright) assassinated on 13 July, then J. Castillo (Assault Guard) was also assassinated as a revenge by radical right wing
                                                   2. M. Azaña the president
                                                      1. S. Casares Quiroga Prime Minister

                                                         Nota:

                                                         • He represented the ORGA (galician nationalist coalition)
                                                   3. Return to reformism
                                                   4. New process of Authonomic Estatutes

                                                      Nota:

                                                      • Recover the Estatute fo Catalonia Basque Country and Galicia started their own way to aprove their Estatutes (disrupted by the War)
                                                   5. Amnestie the rebels of Asturias
         2. Constituent Courts
      2. Troubles
         1. Internal
            1. Polarized Society
               1. Social Elites and conservators vs Working classes
                  1. Social Revolts
                     1. Convents on fire
                        1. strikes
                           1. Claim for Social Revolution (Russian Rev.)
         2. External
            1. Fascism
               1. Stalinism
                  1. Great Depression