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By 1936, Franco was chief of staff for the military. In July 1936, Franco lead a revolt against the Popular Front. It started in the Canary Islands, where Franco was governor and spread to Morocco where he had made many contacts in the 17 years he was based there.
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The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 and officially ended with Franco's victory in April 1939, leaving 190,000[9] to 500,000[10] dead. Despite the Non-Intervention Agreement of August 1936, the war was marked by foreign intervention on behalf of both sides, leading to international repercussions. The nationalist side was supported by Fascist Italy, which sent the Corpo Truppe Volontarie and later Nazi Germany, which assisted with the Condor Legion infamous for their bombing of Guernica in April 1937. Britain and France strictly adhered to the arms embargo, provoking dissensions within the French Popular Front coalition led by Léon Blum, but the Republican side was nonetheless supported by volunteers fighting in the International Brigades and the Soviet Union.
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Franco flew to Morocco to command the rebel colonial army. After a mutiny in the fleet gave control of the Straits to the Republic, he persuaded Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to supply transport aircraft for a large-scale airlift. Once on the mainland, he deployed the ruthless Army of Africa as an instrument of terror, its march on Madrid leaving a trail of slaughter. His contacts with Hitler and Mussolini and his progress towards Madrid made him the natural choice to be overall rebel commander. In late September 1936, he made certain by diverting his troops away from Madrid to relieve the besieged Alcázar of Toledo and so inflate his own political position with an emotional victory. On October 1, 1936, he became the Head of State.
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Francisco Franco, the son of a naval postmaster, was born in El Ferrol, Spain, on 4th December, 1892. Franco graduated from the Toledo Military Academy in 1910. Commissioned into the 8th Regiment he was posted to Morocco in 1913. Although physically small he proved to be a courageous officer and won rapid promotion.
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Franco had been born into a military family. From 1907 to 1910, he was educated at Toledo Infantry Academy and he served in Spanish Morocco from 1910 to 1927. He made a name for himself leading attacks against Moroccan nationalists and in 1927 was promoted to full general and made principal of Saragossa Military Academy.
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Franco led a successful military career and reached the rank of General. He fought in Morocco and suppressed a strike in 1934 to defend the Republican government's stability. In February 1936, the left-wing Popular Front won the general election and formed a government. A period of severe instability and disarray followed the election, with escalating violence between left and right wing supporters. Anti-clerical violence against the Church by leftist militants further raised tensions. After the assassination of a major opposition figure, José Calvo Sotelo, by a commando unit of the Assault Guards in July 1936, Franco participated in a coup d'etat against the elected Popular Front government.
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