Spain Is Denied Entrance into the United Nations
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs
- Subcategories: Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, Dictatorships, Dictators, Tyrants, Human Rights, Fascism, Fascists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Spanish/Portuguese History
- Geographical Location: Spain
- Date: December 12, 1946
Article abstract: The General Assembly of the United Nations denied Spain membership in disapproval of its authoritarian and Fascist-oriented regime headed by dictator Francisco Franco.
Summary of Event
General Francisco Franco consolidated a military dictatorship in Spain after his armed forces prevailed in a three-year civil war against the Second Spanish Republic in 1939. Franco’s totalitarian regime was born of a military insurrection against Spain’s legal government. It was able to survive until Franco’s death in 1975 by repressing the Spanish...
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