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- ❖ Britain and France headed a non-intervention committee that banned countries from formally becoming involved in the Spanish Civil War. This meant that other nations did nothing to help the democratically elected government of the Spanish Republic.
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The Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939) saw right-wing Nationalists, led by General Franco, fight against the left-wing Republicans. Germany and Italy supported the Nationalists with planes,...
Britain and the Spanish Civil War. In 1936 the Conservative government feared the spread of communism from the Soviet Union to the rest of Europe. Stanley Baldwin, the British prime minister, shared this concern and was fairly sympathetic to the military uprising in Spain against the left-wing Popular Front government.
Jul 19, 2011 · Records showing the full extent of British involvement in the Spanish Civil War have been put online by The National Archives to mark the 75th anniversary of outbreak of the war in 1936.
No foreign conflict has had a greater impact on modern British politics than the Spanish Civil War (1936–9). More than other conflicts of the 1930s in Abyssinia and China, or more recent wars in Vietnam and Bosnia, the Spanish Civil War served to galvanise political activity in Britain, in support both of the Republican government and of ...
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Feb 2, 2012 · For seven months Spain had been embroiled in a brutal civil war, sparked by an uprising of right-wing generals against the country’s elected government. The British were there as part of the International Brigades, a force of foreign volunteers who had come to fight for the Spanish Republic.
Oct 3, 2017 · It is true that we understand much about British charitable evacuations of children during the Spanish Civil War, but we have much to learn about British government-backed maritime rescue efforts of adults at risk from violence behind the lines.
Labour Party Conference Report 1936 – an excellent primary source introduction to the Spanish Civil War which includes speeches and debates about the war, Spanish speakers, resolutions attacking the British government’s position of “non-intervention” and the setting up of the Spanish Medical Aid Committee, amongst other related ...
