Best+or+Worst+Dictator+Francisco+Franco+by+Carlen'o+Johnson

__//**B**//__ __rief Biography__- Francisco Franco was born in El Ferro, Spain on December 4, 1892. He was educated at Toledo Infantry Academy and he served in Spanish Morocco from 1910 to 1927. He made himself leading attacks against Moroccan Nationalists, and in 1927 was promoted to full General. He was principle of Saragossa Military Academy. In October of 1923 Francisco Franco got married to a woman by the name of "Carmen Polo". She was a member of a wealthy merchant family. Franco's reputation grew in the armed forces when Alfonso XIII sent a representative to the wedding.

__//**H**//ow did Francisco Franco come to power__ - When Francisco Franco's wedding was held in October of 1923 a man by the name of Alfonso XIII sent a representative to Franco's weeding, and that's when his reputation grew. 2 years after his wedding in 1925 France and Spain combined forces against "Abd-el-Krim" in Morocco and Franco was placed in command of the Spanish troops. A year later he was appointed Europe's youngest General. Franco was named commander of Spain's new Military Academy at saragossa in 1928. This was a huge accolade for Franco. That now included him visiting military schools in Germany, extra curriculum activities, and France. Then years later Commander of the Army of Africa and began to conqueor southern Spain.

__//**K**//eeping his power__- Franco by the end of September 1936 was voted by other Generals to become commander of Nationalists army. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">He was appointed Chief of State and Franco began to remove all his main rivals for leadership of the Nationalists forces. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">When am man by the name of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera was shot, Franco explicated his death by making him a mythological <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">saint of the facist movement. In April 19, 1937 Francisco Franco forced the unification of the falange Espanola and the Carlists with <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">other small right wing parties to form the falange Espanola Tradicionalista. Franco made himself the own leader of his new organization. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Franco also posted posters all around Spain saying "One State, One Country, One Chief Franco Franco Franco!" showing his power <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">through posters. Also Franco and his troops captured "Bandajoz" expanding and keeping power strong.

__//**N**//ow I'm going to show a few pictures through 3 different stages in Francisco Franco's life__



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 190%;">__//**E**//liminating Opposition__ - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Franco had removed all his main rivals for the leadership of the Nationalists Forces. He was <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">a cruel and like a savage type of a dictator and a estimated amount of about 200,000 prisoners died because of <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">starvation, overwork, and executions. Franco wanted a lot of land and when he did either try to work out negotiations <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">with fellow allies or just decide "right of rip" to go and decide to get a certain piece of land and go conqueor it. The <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">persecutions of political opponents continued until 1944 when a number of amenstres and pardons were granted.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__//**H**//ere are some pictures of some of the countries he controlled.__



__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 190%;">//**L**//and conquered - __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Franco and Nationalists Army and other troops gradually began to take control of spain. His troops <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">captured "Badajoz", the secured borders in Portugual, and then they captured Bilbao. Bilbao is a city in spain that <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">the conquered. Bilbao had provided Franco with a major industrial base. Franco also isloated Madrid and it's defenders surrendered <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Madrdid on March 31st.



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 190%;">__//**C**//redits__: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I will like to give credits to the website called ( www.spartacus.school.net.co.uk/2WWfranco.htm) That is the <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">website i got majority of my information on one of the best Dictators in the world Francisco Franco. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Sunrise December 4, 1892- Sunset November 20, 1975.