Catalonia was under a dictatorship by Franco’s regime during the time the First World War broke out, and Spain had villainized Catalan people as traitors. Because of this, tensions escalated within the Spanish Civil War (Dowling 37). Catalonia had to be under another oppressive ruler determined to push forward his ideology and maintain his power over the people. This allowed for Catalonia to be split among themselves during a civil war and being powerless against Franco’s regime. Spain was willing to divide the Catalonia nation and push their political agenda, which constrained Catalonia’s power to rebel or refuse to be contained in Spain.

Text source:

“1 Catalanism and the Spanish State, 1898–1939.” Catalonia since the Spanish

Civil War Reconstructing the Nation, by Andrew Dowling, Sussex Academic

Press, 2014, p. 37.

Image source:

Barrett, Claire. “Spain Exhumes the Remains of Dictator Francisco Franco 44

Years After His Death.” HistoryNet, HistoryNet, 24 Oct. 2019,

www.historynet.com/spain-exhumes-the-remains-of-dictator-francisco-franco-44-years-after-his-death.htm