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Spanish Civil War Terms Francisco Largo Caballero - leader of Socialist Party. Known as the "Spanish Lenin." Leader of the UGT. Prime Minister 1937-37 Falange - Right-wing group led by Miguel Primo de Rivera Cortes - Parliament Popular front - left wing coalition Caciquismo - the system where local landowners controlled local politics via bribery and intimidation. Pesetas - currency of Spain FNTT - peasant union, linked to the Socialist Party. Jose Maria Robles - leader of CEDA Action Popular, Popular Action - Catholic conservative electoral organization. Called Accion Nacional until 1932. Niceto Alcala zamora - right-wing Republican. President of the Republic 1931-1936 Manuel Azana - Left- wing Republican. Prime Minister 1931-1933 and February to May 1936. President 1936-1939. Jose Calvo Sotelo - right-wing leader murdered by Republican police on 13 July 1936. CEDA, Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rightist Parties - coalition of conservative political groups formed in 1933. CNT, National Confederation of Labour - anarcho-syndicalist trade union organization FAI, Iberian Anarchist Federation - revolutionary wing of anarcho-syndicalist movement Francisco Franco - Nationalist general and supreme leader of anti-Republican forces from October 1936 onwards. Jose Maria Gils Robles - Catholic conservative; leader of Popular Action and of the CEDA. Alejandro Lerroux Garcia - leader of right Republican Radical Party. Prime Minister 1933-1935 (after 1934 in coalition with CEDA)

Emilio Mola - Nationalist general and leader of the 1936 conspiracy. Killed in 1937. Juan Negrin - Socialist Prime Minister 1937-1939 POUM - anti -Stalinist communist party. Miguel Primo de Rivera - General and after 1923 coup dictator until 1930. Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera - son of dictator and founder of Fascist party Falange Espanola. Executed 1936. UGT, General Workers' Union. - Closely linked to the Socialist Party....