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Francisco Franco Bahamonde[ f] ( Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ˈfɾaŋko βa.aˈmonde]; 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 the title Caudillo.
Galicians ( Galician: galegos [ɡaˈleɣʊs]; Spanish: gallegos [ɡaˈʎeɣos]) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group [ 7] from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people [ 8] and has its historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. [ 9]
The socio-political activity contrasts with the prolific cultural activity. The Galician society of the early twentieth century is still characterized by the concentration of economic power in sections of minority, with an agricultural system in which medieval influences remained and with a growing emigration that demographically emptied the ...
Gallego instead enjoyed a different rise to national attention several years later, when he was a leading outspoken critic against Sinema, after she declined to support the party’s drive to ...
U.S. M4 Sherman tank clearing an Imperial Japanese bunker on Iwo Jima during the Second World War. The "Grand Area" as per the CFR planners, October 1940. A series of Neutrality Acts passed by the U.S. Congress in the 1930s sought to return foreign policy to non-interventionism in European affairs, as it had been prior to the American entry into World War I.
Ruben Gallego. Rubén Marinelarena Gallego ( / ˈruːbən ɡaɪˈɛɡoʊ / ROO-bən gy-EH-goh; born November 20, 1979) is an American politician and former U.S. Marine serving as the U.S. representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district. Gallego served and deployed as a USMCR Corporal in the US invasion of Iraq.
Cordell Hull pre-war to November 1944. Edward Stettinius to war's ending a WW2. Secretary of the Interior. Harold Ickes throughout the war. Secretary of Commerce. Jesse H. Jones pre-war to June 1945. Henry A. Wallace to war's end. Secretary of the Treasury. Henry Morgenthau Jr. pre-war to June 1945.
The Demobilization of United States armed forces after the Second World War began with the defeat of Germany in May 1945 and continued through 1946. The United States had more than 12 million men and women in the armed forces at the end of World War II, of whom 7.6 million were stationed abroad. [ 1] The American public demanded a rapid ...