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Bookmark or Share- Francisco Franco | Biography, Nickname, Beliefs, & Facts | BritannicaFrancisco Franco, general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and head of state until his death in 1975. Learn more about Franco in this article.
- Francisco Franco - WikipediaFrancisco Franco Bahamonde [f] [g] (born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming ...
- Francisco Franco - Facts, Death & Achievements - BiographyFrancisco Franco was a career soldier who rose through the ranks until the mid-1930s. When the social and economic structure of Spain began to crumble, Franco joined the growing right-leaning...
- Francisco Franco ‑ Biography, Facts & Death - HISTORYThe general and dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and...
- Francisco Franco - Spanish Civil War, Dictatorship, Regime | BritannicaFrancisco Franco - Spanish Civil War, Dictatorship, Regime: Although Franco had visions of restoring Spanish grandeur after the Civil War, in reality he was the leader of an exhausted country still divided internally and impoverished by a long and costly war.
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