Spain Ch. 5.5 Questions

Paper 3 topic: Spain

Things to know about:

Franco’s regime and the transition to, and establishment of, democracy under Juan Carlos, including an examination of the social, political and economic issues facing Spain and the methods used to cope with challenges

Questions for “Ch. 5.5 Spain 53-75”
1. What three successes did Spain experience in international relations between 1950 and 1955? The US had given them a 62 million dollar loan, a membership in UNESCO and a full membership in the United Nations.

2. What were three examples of the economic problems facing Spain in the 1950s?
They were economically weak. The per capita meat consumption was half of what it had been in 1926. Also bread consumption was half since 1936. Mass corruption lead to people paying double to the black market double those in the shops.
3. What is Opus Dei? What is a technocrat?
A political party that was put in place under Franco in oder to solve a series of policy solutions to Spain's economic crisis. A technocrat is someone who is in charge of solving economic problems for the government that they work for.
4. What specific economic policies made up the Stabilization Plan of 1957? What does Desarollo mean?
To fix inflation and debts that were owed it also was put into place to help unemployment which was at a all time high at 35%. Desarollo is when there is a oil crisis or not being cut off from receiving oil.
5. What other factor(s) helped boost the Spanish economy of the 1960s?
"Franco's Peace", and the Opus Dei worked, the economy become more stable and met short term goals.
6. What were three examples of the economic improvement experienced by Spaniards during the 1960s?
1) 4 to 66% in owning refrigerators.
2)1 to 10% in owning cars
3)A higher diverge between richer and poor do to tripling in wages

7. What types of media came to dominate Spanish culture during the 1960s?
Television, and controlling the football sports, since this was the pastime essentially for the people were they felt happy, he could control their happiness essentially.
8. What are three ways that economic growth in Spain undermined the social structure that helped create Franco’s regime?
1) Diverge with the rich north and the poor south.
2) Rapid urbanization of Spain.
3) Education reforms, paradoxical consequences.
9. Briefly summarize the “anti-democratic” legacy of the Franco regime.
A denouncement of Franco because of his selfish behavior and his radically reconstruction of the state. And all his polices that reformed Spain, on media, women and education.
10. Briefly summarize the “institutionalized discrimination against married women” in Spain in the 1970s.
Married women had no rights, they were second class citizens who signed their rights over the the husbands basically, they couldn't open property or even get a job without the permission of the their spouse.
11. Briefly describe how nationalist minority groups behaved and were treated in Spain during the 1960s and 1970s.
Franco had restrictions on them because he didn't want them in his country. Some behaved as terrorist like such as the ETA, others were killed by the government in trials because of the affiliations.