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The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic . [ 10 ]
General map of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) French Map of the subjugation of the republican zone by the nationalist zone during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939.)
Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War: March 26, 1939 – April 1, 1939 [147] [148] [149] Republican forces overthrew the government and established a military Junta. This new government attempted to negotiate peace with the Nationalists, however the rebels were only interested in an unconditional surrender. They launched an offensive and ...
List of foreign ships wrecked or lost in the Spanish Civil War; List of Spanish Civil War films; List of Spanish Civil War flying aces; List of Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords and Diamonds recipients; List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War; List of war films and TV specials: Spanish Civil War; Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War; Spain during ...
Spanish Civil War situation of the fronts in November of 1938. This map has been drawn by PACO with the tool "Paint" of Windows Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation ; with no ...
Bilbao was the capital of the autonomous Basque area, which had been established by the Spanish Republic after the war began to reward Basque nationalist support of the Republic. The Basque people in Spain generally inhabit four provinces: Navarre , Álava , Gipuzkoa and Biscay .
During the civil war, approximately 700 Canadians lost their lives fighting. [5] In 1938, the Republican Faction was taking heaving loses and realized that they were losing the war. Several Canadian fighters left Spain and returned to Canada before General Francisco Franco entered Madrid and ended the war in April 1939.
After its initial success, the ambitious republican offensive failed and the front stabilized in a line from Serra de Pàndols in the west through Gandesa and neighbouring Vilalba dels Arcs, as far east as the Serra de Cavalls range and north to Serra de la Fatarella. Defended by the Nationalist 50th Division, the republican troops launched ...