Spanish History: 20th Century Engineering & Social Sciences Program Fall 2023 Semester - Madrid

The program is divided into for main sections:

Part 1: The early twentieth century
1. 1. Economic, social and cultural outlook of Spain between 1900 and 1930.
1. 2. The war in Cuba and "regenerationism".
1. 3. Political crisis of the Restoration system. The opposition to the system: socialism, anarchism, nationalism.
1. 4. The war in Africa and the military question.
1. 5. The Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1930)

Part 2. The crisis of the Thirties (1931-1939)
2. 1. The arrival of the Second Republic. The reformist biennium (1931-1933).
2. 2. The Radical-CEDA biennium. The center-right in power (1933-1936).
2. 3. The elections of 1936 and the military uprising.
2. 4. The Spanish Civil War: causes, stages and development.
2. 5. Evolution of the sides in conflict. Republican Spain and rebellious Spain.

Part 3: Franco's Spain (1939-1975)
3. 1 The postwar period and the repression. The first Francoism: from national-syndicalism to national-Catholicism (1939-1959).
3. 2. The dictatorship, from its heyday to its decline (1959-1975). Economic, social and political transformations. The opposition groups.
3. 3. Approach to the figure of Francisco Franco

Part 4. Democracy in Spain (1975-present)
4. 1. The origins of the transition to democracy
4. 2. The centrist period (1976-1982). The Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the establishment of the autonomies regime
4. 3. The socialist period: transformation, welfare and crisis (1982-1996). Spain in Europe
4. 4. The Popular Party government (1996-2004)