Spain Dbq Euro Ap Exam

During the elections of 1936 in Spain, the center and left-wing parties formed a coalition to power the government, but their ideologies and beliefs conflicted with each others' ways in which to defend the Spanish Republic.

Manuel Azana, a Republican prime minister, desired "peace and order" and he did not want "dangerous innovations", and some agreed with him, while many others agreed that change was needed to improve the nation. The Socialist Left was also against change, and it rebuked many creative suggestions because they did not want the other parties to become more powerful. Socialist Socrates Gomez apposed the idea that the left-wing of the socialist party blocked a movement that could have created shared governmental power between the Marxists and the Socialist. The Socialist Left also refused to allow a new process, attempted by the Republicans, that introduced a "modern political mentality through reform" (Andres Marquez, 1936).

On the contrary to what Azana desired, change is what was going to occur nevertheless, and the Anarchists and Communists knew it would the changes would not be peaceful. The Communist party wanted a professional army to fight the Fascists (Manuel Carabano, 1936) and even the anarchists believed it. Some Anarchists, like Manuel