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España No Ha Muerto “We are confronted by the twin dangers of Bolshevism and Masonic-Plutocrat capitalism. The spirit of both is Judaic. But the Spanish people already know how to deal with this menace. We have defeated it once before on the battlefield, and we shall do so again. And this...

The right-wing coup that kicked off the Spanish Civil War was actually a huge failure for the conspirators, at least at first. Although they took nearly all of the north, important cities like Oviedo, Seville and Córdoba, as well as the colonies (where their best military force, the Army of...

Apparently, there was a plot hatched by a group of Spanish anarchists around september 1948 to snipe dead dictator Francisco Franco from an airplane with a hail of explosives around La Concha Bay in San Sebastian. It failed, but what if Franco had been assassinated that day? How much instability...

In our timeline the Carlists managed to win the Spanish Civil War. But what if they were defeated and the Republicans, the Communists, or the Falangists had won? How would this Civil War had been different, and how would Spain have been shaped in the 20th century when WWII rolls around?

In 1941, Spain was a neutral power with ties to the Axis. Their government was arguably indebted to Germany and Italy due to their intervention on Franco's behalf, and Hitler hoped to convince Franco to join the Axis side to close the Mediterranean to Britain. The negotiations went nowhere, but...

After WWII ended in Europe the Allies invaded Spain and topple Franco's government in order to wipe out the last bastion of fascism in Europe, and although the Republican government was finally replaced by a Constitutional Monarchy after a referenfum things turned out the be fairly well. At the...

What do you think would have happened if Franco was killed during the Cold War rather than dying peacefully in his bed in 1975? I know it depends on the period in which he dies, but could this cause an early end to the dictatorship in Spain?

This is an essay instead of a proper Timeline, even if it has it's good chunk of text. The main thing with the current TL is, apart from it being unfnished (though pretty advanced, well into 1945) I feel my knowledge on the subject isn't good enough to write a properly detailed TL, hence why I...

Say Franco enters the war on Hitler's side in 1940, and thus seals his regime's fate when Anglo-American troops start pouring into North Africa. What would have been the most likely date for the Allies to invade? c.1943, in conjunction with the invasion of Sicily/Italy? 1945, after Germany and...

Not many people know this about the Spanish Civil War, and it's a fact that many history buffs can tend to forget, but in the beginning of the conflict it wasn't Francisco Franco who was tapped to lead the Nationalist Forces, rather it was Marshal Jose Sanjurjo a Spanish general who played a key...

In this timeline, Franco and the Nationalists lose the Spanish Civil War on January 3 1937.

So what if the revolution of 1956 in Hungary would have been actually a well-outplanned coup of the Hungarian conservative forces backed by Spain and Portugal? How could things play out? Is there any chance to the coup succeding? If yes, what could be the further consquences? PLease tell me what...

The challenge is simple. Take a brutal bloody dictatorship in last few centuries, and replace it with a less bloody one that eventually leads to more freedom. Rules 1. Figure out when the coup/counter-revolution will start. 2. Figure out who will lead it. 3. How much less bad can it be than the...

Say in 1937 the war grinds to a halt and a sort of uneasy peace is established between the Republic and the Nationalist state, each remaining independent. Would Nationalist Spain invade the Republic during WWII (or failing that, would Germany?) Would they enter into opposite camps during the...