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The Pact of San Sebastian
Republicans and socialist agreed to overthrow the monarchy and establish a democratic republic regime, the Spanish federal party wasn't invited.
They created the Revolutionary Committee and they called a general strike most of the memebers were arrested. -
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Reformist biennium
Niceto Alcala Zamora was named as a president of the Republic and Manuel Azaña was named president of the government
They did some new reforms like:
The Statue of Autonomy for Cataluña was passed
The subordination of the army
The Jesuists were expelled
The Agrarian reform -
Municipal elections
Were the first elections after the coup d`etat of Primo Ribera, they were municipal
The monarchist won in general but the republicans get a partial win because they won in the large cities.
Alfonso XIII leaves the country lead to the change of thinking of the urban classes -
The proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic
The second republic was proclaimed and the Revolutionary Committee becomes Provisional Republican Government -
The Pact of San Sebastian
It was a pact between Republicans and socialist but the Spanish Federal Party didn't attend.
They agreed to overthrow the monarchy and establish a democratic republican regime.
They create a Revolutionary Committee to call a general strike most of the members were arrested -
General Sanjurjo tries a coup d`etat
Was a failed when he tries to get the power -
Occupied in Casas Viejas
The anarchist revolt and occupied the land of Casas Viejas in Cadiz was repressed by the government was the break-up of the Reformist biennium -
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The black biennium
Elections were held in November and was the first time woman could vote with some restrictions.
The anarchists tried to convince people to don't go to vote
CEDA and Partido Republicano Radical won the elections and Alejandro Lerroux was held as the leader
Some revolts appeared in this period of time -
Revolution of October
It was continuous strikes by the nationalists, anarchists and communist organizations
The two main uprisings were in Cataluña when they declared the independence of Spain and in Asturias when the army has to stop the revolts form the workers -
The Popular Front
New elections were called
Left wings parties join together to create the Popular Front
They grew a lot and were represented by Jose Calvo Sotelo and the Falange Española
They won the elections with the 60%
Azaña was replaced by Zamora and Santiago Casares was the head of the government -
The start of the civil war
It was an atmosphere very tense between the different political parties with assassinations and church arson.
They were killing each other in this period
This event triggered the military coup led by General Emilio Mola under the leadership of Jose Sanjurjo, also was supported by Carlists and Fascist Falange
The 17 of July it was a rebellion from the Spanish soldiers in Morocco