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.

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
Date 17 Julie 1936 – 1 April 1939 (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day) Location Spain Spaingie pertectorate in Morocco Spaigie Guinea Mediterranean Sea North Atlantic 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  Soviet Union  Mexico (anly diplomatic support)	Naitionalists Falange (frae 1937) Carlists (1936–37) CEDA (1936–37) Alfonsists (1936–37) Supported by Italy Portugal Germany Foreign volunteers
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
estimatit 500,000 killed[3][nb 1] 450,000 fled[4]

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.

References

1. Thomas (1961). p. 491.
2. Thomas (1961). p. 488.
3. "Spanish judge opens case into Franco's atrocities". New York Times. 16 October 2008. Retrieved 28 Julie 2009.
4. Beevor (2006). pp. 410–11. Beevor notes that aroond 150,000 haed returned bi 1939.
5. Payne (2012). p. 231.

Bibliografie

• Payne, Stanley G. (2012). The Spanish Civil War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-17470-1.
• Beevor, Antony (2006) [The Spanish Civil War (1982)]. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-84832-1.
• Thomas, Hugh (2003) [1961, 1987, 2001]. The Spanish Civil War. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-101161-0. OCLC 248799351.