Timeline (Ok Stalin)

= 20th Century =

1921
Disaster of Annual: The slaughter of more than ten thousand spanish soldiers in Morocco during the Rif War by the moroccan berbers leads to a parliamentary investigation of the incident.

1923
The Picasso File (Spanish: Expediente Picasso), written by General Juan Picasso, blames some military high commanders of the Disaster at Annual. According to the file, reponsibility reaches even the king himself. To avoid the parliament releasing the results of the investigation into the public opinion, general Miguel Primo de Rivera leads a military uprising and establishes a dictatorship with the support of the king, Alfonso XIII.

1930
Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera abandons his post as head of the government of Spain. He is succeeded by Dámaso Berenguer.

1931
Dámaso Berenguer fails to continue with the dictatorship and is succeeded by Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas. Aznar-Cabañas calls for local elections to take place in April 12th. The polls are closed with an evident republican victory. The Republic is declared in Spain and king Alfonso XIII flees the country.

1933
The Nationalsocialist party takes power in Germany and initiates it's period of iron fist rule.