Cortes Elections of November 1933

• movement to the center-right
• radicalized Socialists

Strikes of October 1934

• Asturias Revolution: 15,000 are arrested throughout Spain
• Generalität of Catalonia declares a provisional republic government in Barcelona

The Popular Front and the February 1936 Elections

• Left regroups in 1935; wins parliamentary majority in Feb. 1936 elections.
• Leftist government arrests military officers responsible for arrests in 1934.
• Left still divided between pro-democratic and violent radicals.

Final Breakdown (May - June 1936)

• Increased street violence; strikes (444 in June)
• Catalonia and the Basque Country declare their autonomy
• Cortes reduced to ideologically polarized debates
• Calvo Sotelo is assassinated

Civil War