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Francisco Franco was the Dictator of Spain from April 1, 1936 until November 20, 1975. He rose to power in the 1930s and in 1936 led the national army to a victory on April 1, 1936. Francisco Franco took control of the government as a military dictator and. When he took over he wanted to restore the power of Spain because he knew that it was weaker because of the fact that they had recently come out of their civil war. Although Franco agreed with the ideas of Mussolini and Hitler, he stayed neutral at the beginning of the war. Although he did offer to join the war on the Axis Powers side, but Hitler claimed that his terms were too ridiculous.

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