History of SpainRaquel and Aitana

The Civil War

• The War (Spanish: La Guerra) was a civil war fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalist, a fascist rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. The Nationalists won, and Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years, from 1939 until his death in 1975. The war is often called the "dress rehearsal" for World War II.

Fall of Franco• On November 20, 1975 is a

marked in the history of Spain dates: it was the day when General Franco died. 36-year dictatorship that followed three of bloody civil war ended well. Carlos Arias Navarro, then Prime Minister, announced on television all the Spanish dictator's death. Very excited, he also read the political testament of Franco before uttering a voice broken a 'Long live Spain! ". Arias remained president until 1 July 1976. King Juan Carlos choose to happen to a reformist young politician named Adolfo Suarez.

Women's suffrage• Women's suffrage (also known as woman

suffrage)  is the right of women to vote and to stand for electoral office. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Sweden Finland and some western U.S.  states in the late 19th century.

 National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance(1904), and also worked for equal civil rights for women.

2004 Madrid train bombings• The 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11-M) were nearly simultaneous, coordinated bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain, on the morning of 11 March 2004 – three days before Spain´s general elections and two and a half years after the September 11 attacks in the United States. The explosions killed 191 people and wounded 1,800.  The official investigation by the Spanish judiciary found that the attacks were directed by an al-Qaeda -inspired terrorist cell, although no direct al-Qaeda participation has been established. Though they had no role in the planning or implementation, the Spanish miners who sold the explosives to the terrorists were also arrested.

Santiago de Compostela rail disaster

• The Santiago de Compostela rail disaster occurred on 24 July 2013, when an Alvia high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed  at high speed on a bend about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) outside of the railway station at Santiago de Compostela Spain. Of the 222 people (218 passengers and 4 crew) aboard, around 140 were injured and 79 died.

• The train's data recorder showed that it was travelling at about twice the posted speed limit of 80 kilometers per hour (50 mph) when it entered a bend in the line. The crash was recorded on a track-side camera which shows all thirteen vehicles derailing and four overturning. On 28 July 2013, the train's driver Francisco José Garzón Amo was charged with 79 counts of homicide by professional recklessness and an undetermined number of counts of causing injury by professional recklessness