Spanish Democratic Republic

The Spanish Democratic Republic (República Democrática Española) was a and was the predecessor of the modern day Third Spanish Republic. It was formed at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 following the collapse and surrender of all factions aligned with the Nationalists and the unification of all factions that fought for the Republican side under the control of the Spanish Communist Party. All of Spain's territories were later annexed into the newly established Spanish state which was officially declared on April 3rd, 1939 in the Proclamation of the People's Republic by General Secretary Fernando Ocampo of the Communist Party who took over as the de-facto leader of Spain in the aftermath of the civil war.

Following the end of the civil war, a communist government was established and the party took over as the sole legal political party and began a process of reconstruction to rebuild Spain and its infrastructure which was destroyed by the effects of the civil war. Fernando instituted his new policies which included Five-year plans, collectivization, and re-education campaigns to establish a strong, stable, and thriving communist state in Spain and to advance the rights of the common working man and woman of Spain. Following the outbreak of World War II, Spain declared neutrality, but took advantage of the war to rebuild the economy and eventually entered into the war on the side of the Allied Powers by 1942 and sent troops to the border with France to repel German and Vichy French armies. Spanish troops were later sent to France during its liberation in 1945 and celebrated the end of the war and Nazi Germany's surrender in May of 1945.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Cold War broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Spanish Democratic Republic aligned itself with the USSR and became a member of there Warsaw Pact and would be a major hotspot int he geopolitical landscape throughout the Cold War.