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Spain from January 30, 1938 - June 8, 1973
Answer this question…Franco did not try to expand Spain's borders.
In 1936, Franco led a military coup against the democratically-elected government of Spain. Over the next three years, he consolidated his power with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. He won the civil and became dictator of Spain in 1939.
Short answer: General Francisco Franco, who after victory became the leader of Spain, a position he essentially occupied until his death in 1975. Slightly longer answer: The Spanish Civil War began on July 17, 1936, in Spanish Morocco, when a group of army officers led by Francisco Franco staged a pronunciamiento, a military coup, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, which had been in existence for only five years. The uprising quickly spread to Spain itself. The Nationalists, as the army rebels came to be known, had the support of a large proportion of the military, the Catholic hierarchy in Spain, and the land-owning aristocracy, all of whom were angry over various progressive reforms of the Republican government. The attempted coup failed, however, and the country fell into a civil war that lasted more than two and a half years and remains the bloodiest conflict Spain has ever known.
Adolf Hitler's Germany Benito Mussolini's Italy Francisco Franco's Spain These are the main fascist governements in the 1940s. Other countries governments, like Norway, Croatia, Vichy France and other states, were merely puppet governments.