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07 THE SECOND SPANISH REPUBLIC - Coggle Diagram
07 THE SECOND SPANISH REPUBLIC
PROCLAMATION AND CONSTITUTION
Second Spanish Republic -> 14 April 1931
Provisional republican government
undertook reforms
Improvements in working conditions
Freedom of worship and secularisation
Statute of autonomy in Cataluña
Modernisation of the army
Clergy received the Republic with distrust
Republicans were strongly anticlerical
Elections to Cortes Constituyentes
Draft the
Constitution of 1931
Social rule of law
‘Republic of workers from all classes’
Universal suffrage starting from the age of 23
Women’s right to vote was recognised
Extensive declaration of rights and freedoms
Divorce, civil marriage and equal rights...
Division of powers
Legislative, executive and juridical
Legislative by the
Cortes
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Right of the regions to establish statutes of autonomy
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Separation between the Church and the state
REFORMIST BIENNIUM
Coalition government
Republicans and socialists
Most stable government of the Second Republic
Took some reforms of Constitution
Statute of Autonomy of Cataluña
Reestablishment of an autonomous government
Aragón, Andalucía, Valencia and the Islas Baleares
Army
Swear allegiance to the Republic
Agricultural reform
Land was redistributed to lauborers
Education
Improve cultural level/opportunities to lower classes
Religion
Separation between Church and state
Civil marriage and divorce, were approved
Social reforms
Improve working conditions of working class
MANUEL AZAÑA
Important Spanish politicians of the Second Republic
Become main republican leader
Was prime minister in two periods
BLACK BIENNIUM
Rejection of the Azaña government’s reforms
Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rights
(CEDA) in 1933
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Catholic groups
Anarchists’ demands did not cease
Violent climate of opposition
Casas Viejas Incidents
Led to Azaña’s resignation
Guardia de Asalto brutally suppressed an anarchist
1933 elections were won by right-wing parties
Radical Party took power
CEDA had received most votes
Political objective -> reverse the reforms
Sanjurjada
coup d’état
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
Founded the
Falange Española
Campaign of aggression against workers
Fear of fascism
Trade unions and socialists to start a revolution
October Revolution of 1934
Took towns and mining areas in Asturia
Establish an autonomous federal government
General strike failed
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VICTORY OF THE POPULAR FRONT
End of the right-wing government and elections
National Front
Conservatives tried to form a coalition
Not done in all electoral districts
Popular Front
Republicans and socialists to win the elections
CNT did not call for its affiliates to abstain
February 1936
Popular Front won the elections
Reintroducing the reforms
Amnesty for political prisoners
For imprisoned during the strikes
Reintroduction of the Agricultural Reform
Abolished by the CEDA
Restoration of Catalan autonom
Strengthening the educational, social and religious reforms
Disorder and violence spread
Anarchism occupied land and set fire
Falange carried out terrorist attacks
Opposition to Popular Front's reforms
Lieutenant Castillo was killed
José Calvo Sotelo was later killed
This was the prologue to a military uprising
