How did Francisco Franco use mass violence against his opponents in Spain?

A. He used military force to eliminate all non-Catholic religious minorities.

B. He employed secret police to terrorize communists and Republican supporters.

C. He sent people who resisted socialism to concentration camps where they were left to die.

D. He used chemical weapons against his own citizens in areas of high ethnic minorities.

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Mariela Ewing

15 May, 10:38

How did Francisco Franco use mass violence against his opponents in Spain?

A. He used military force to eliminate all non-Catholic religious minorities.

B. He employed secret police to terrorize communists and Republican supporters.

C. He sent people who resisted socialism to concentration camps where they were left to die.

D. He used chemical weapons against his own citizens in areas of high ethnic minorities.

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Compton · Answer 1

B. He employed secret police to terrorize communists and Republican supporters.

Francisco Franco was a dictatorial ruler and a fascist. He ruled Spain with an iron hand for several decades until his death in 1975. To suppress free speech and other rights he employed secret police that quashed protests

Daphne Pena · Answer 2

The correct option is B

B. He employed secret police to terrorize communists and Republican supporters.

. He had an extensive secret police stationed throughout the country, especially at universities, that would interrogate and disappear any person who disagreed with Francoist policy. He also put suspected republican sympathizers in prison to face hard labor.