Democracy Comes to Southern Europe History 337 / March 19, 2012
Antonio Salazar Prime Minister of Portugal, Founder of the “Estado Novo” ( )
Portugal’s African colonies: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, smaller territories
Contemplating Spain without Franco (Time cover from 1966)
Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei (here: in Pamplona Cathedral, 1960)
Basque terrorism: the ETA attacks the Franco regime
Cyprus – an ethnically divided Mediterranean island
Violence in Cyprus, 1964: Archbishop Makarios observes
On patrol with UNFICYP, April 1964
Greece’s junta after the coup of April 1967 (right: Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos, Prime Minister)
Lisbon, April 1974: Marxist officers overthrow the “Estado Novo”
Workers and soldiers unite on the streets of Portugal
Mario Soares, leader of Portugal’s Socialist Party (founded in Bad Münstereifel, West Germany, in 1973)
King Juan Carlos of Spain in 1975
Regions of Spain
Facing off against Greek students: the Athens Polytechnic uprising of November 1973
The Turkish military seizes northern Cyprus, July 1974
The Greek junta on trial (1975)