more years. This way the republican government of Manuel Azaña initiated numerous reforms to what in their view would "modernize" the country.

Landowners were expropriated. Autonomy was granted to Catalonia, with a local parliament and a president of said parliament. Catholic churches in major cities were again subject to arson in 1932, and a revolutionary strike action was seen in Málaga the same year. A Catholic church in Zaragoza