Final Offensive of Spanish Civil War

Date: March 26, 1939 • Location: El Pardo, Spain

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1936–1939.

Nationalist forces began their final offensive of the Spanish Civil War, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.

Francoist Spain, also known as Nationalist Spain, Falangist Spain, the Franco regime, or the Franco dictatorship, officially the Spanish State, was a state established in Nationalist-held territories of Spain ruled by Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 and then comprising the whole of Spain from 1939 until Franco's death in 1975.