Short answers, pulled from the story.
Francisco Franco was born on the 4th of December 1892 in the Calle Frutos Saavedra in Ferrol, Galicia. He was born into a family that had served the Spanish Navy for six uninterrupted generations.
Francisco Franco became the youngest general in Europe by the age of 33 after choosing the army over the navy following the Spanish-American War. His early military success in the Rif War earned him Spain's highest honor for gallantry and laid the foundation for his rapid promotion.
The Spanish Civil War began on the 18th of July 1936 following a failed military coup and ended on the 1st of April 1939 with the surrender of the last Republican forces. Franco proclaimed victory and placed his sword upon the altar of a church to mark the conclusion of the conflict.
Historical analysis and investigations estimate the number of executions by the Franco regime during the White Terror to be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead. This period of mass executions targeted Republican and other Nationalist enemies following the end of the Civil War.
Francisco Franco pursued a policy of non-belligerence during World War II to allow Spain to avoid the devastation of the war while still providing some support to the Axis powers. He forbade Spaniards to fight in the West against the democracies but allowed Spanish soldiers to volunteer to fight in the German Army against the Soviet Union.