What is the second spanish republic
I was looking on gogle for images of spain when i found a red,yellow and purple flag! i thought hmm...thats weird and it said second spanish republic udnerneath it
i tried researching it but i did not understand the context and was hoping any of you would no! all thoughts welcome
gracias!
2 Answers
The Second Spanish Republic was a short lived system of government in Spain from April 14, 1931, just after King Alfonso XIII fled the country and following some elections and April 1, 1939 when the Republicans surrendered to the Nationalists under Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War.
This government gave women the right to vote, freedom of speech, freedom of association, Seperation of Church and State, and overthrew the nobility's judicial rights.
They were later overthrown, as previously stated, during the Spanish Civil war at a time when totalitarianism was dominating the world powers with Fascism in Italy, Communism in Russia, and Nazis in Germany.
Some would say Spain isn't so much a country as it is three states, for lack of a better word. Spain was always like that, even way back to The Roman Empire, who united Spain, and may explain why Italian and Spanish language and culture are very similiar. I've spoken spanish to italian people and they understood me perfectly, but I couldn't understand them easily. Anyway, Spain has three flags, three languages (that I know of), but united under a king. There are regions of Spain there are autonomus, semiautonomus, ect. This is where ETA comes in...they want their independence from Spain, and have been fighting forever for it. This is what caused the Spainish Empire to collapse, because they got to fighting and the conquistidors had to return home. You can find more if you wiki the history of Spain.
