Spainish Ceevil War

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Spainish Ceevil War

The Spaingie Ceevil War (Spaingie: Guerra Civil Española),[nb 2] widely kent in Spain simply as The Ceevil War (Spaingie: Guerra Civil) or The War (Spaingie: La Guerra), teuk place frae 1936 tae 1939 an wis focht atween the Republicans, wha war leal tae the democratic, left-leanin Seicont Spanish Republic, an the Naitionalists, a falangist group led bi General Francisco Franco. Awtho eften portrayed as a struggle atween democracy an fascism, some historians consider it mair accurately describit as a struggle atween leftist revolution an richtist coonterrevolution.[5] Ultimately, the Naitionalists wan, an Franco then ruled Spain for the next 36 year, frae Aprile 1939 till his daith in November 1975.

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Spaingie Ceevil War
Pairt o the Interwar period

Members o the XI Internaitional Brigade o the Republican Internaitional Brigades at the Battle o Belchite ride on a T-26 tank
Date17 Julie 1936 – 1 April 1939
(2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Result

Naitionalist victory

  • End o the Seicont Spaingie Republic
  • Establishment o Francoist Spain
Belligerents
Republicans
  • Popular Front
  • CNT/FAI
  • UGT
  • Generalitat of Catalonia
  • EG (1936–37)
  • PG
  • Internaitional Brigades
  • Foreign volunteers

Supportit bi

Naitionalists
  • Falange (frae 1937)
  • Carlists (1936–37)
  • CEDA (1936–37)
  • Alfonsists (1936–37)

Supported by

Commanders an leaders
Republican leaders
  • Manuel Azaña
  • Julián Besteiro
  • Francisco Largo Caballero
  • Juan Negrín
  • Indalecio Prieto
  • Vicente Rojo Lluch
  • José Miaja
  • Juan Modesto
  • Juan Hernández Saravia
  • Carlos Romero Giménez
  • Buenaventura Durruti 
  • Lluís Companys
  • José Antonio Aguirre
Nationalist leaders
  • José Sanjurjo 
  • Emilio Mola 
  • Francisco Franco
  • Gonzalo Queipo de Llano
  • Juan Yagüe
  • Miguel Cabanellas 
  • Manuel Goded Llopis 
  • Manuel Hedilla
  • Manuel Fal Condé
  • Mohamed Meziane
Strenth
1938 strenth:[1]
  • 450,000 infantry
  • 350 aircraft
  • 200 tanks
1938 strenth:[2]
  • 600,000 infantry
  • 600 aircraft
  • 290 tanks
Casualties an losses
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Notes

  1. The nummer o casualties is disputit; estimates generally suggest that atween 500,000 an 1 million fowk war killed. Ower the years, historians kept lawerin the daith figurs an modren research concludes that 500,000 daiths is the correct figur. Thomas Barria-Norton, The Spanish Civil War (2001), pp. xviii & 899–901, inclusive.
  2. Forby kent as The Crusade (Spaingie: La Cruzada) amang Naitionalists, the Fowert Carlist War (Spaingie: Cuarta Guerra Carlista) amang Carlists, an The Rebellion (Spaingie: La Rebelión) or Uprising (Spaingie: Sublevación) amang Republicans.

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