Francisco Franco was a general and the leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and the head of state until his death in 1975.
In post-war Japan, the United States implemented a policy of "rebuilding the nation" The Allies had learned their lesson after WWI, when they were too harsh on the losers.
