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The Spanish Civil War involved large numbers of non-Spanish citizens who participated in combat and advisory positions. Britain and France led a political alliance of 27 nations that pledged non-intervention, including an embargo on all arms exports to Spain.
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Hugo Wilhelm Sperrle (7 February 1885 – 2 April 1953) was a...
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The name Republicans (republicanos) was mainly used by its members and supporters, while its opponents used the term Rojos (Reds) to refer to this faction due to its left-leaning ideology, including far-left communist and anarchist groups, and the support it received from the Soviet Union.
Orr lived in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, where she was a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) female militia. She and her husband, survived the Stalinist attack on the POUM in June 1937, after the fighting of the Barcelona May Days.
Apr 11, 2016 · The commander of the American battalion was Robert Hale Merriman, a lumberjack’s son from California who was a graduate student in economics. He was six feet two, and in photographs his round...
Oct 21, 2024 · Spanish Civil War, (1936–39), military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides.
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May 21, 2018 · The Spanish Civil War was a domestic war in Spain from 1936 to 1939. On one side was the Republic of Spain, the government that had come to power in 1931 when King Alfonso XIII (1886–1941) left the country.
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Sep 24, 2010 · The history of the Spanish Civil War, defying the adage that history is dictated by winners, was written by sympathizers with the losers. ‘Spain’, the alleged dress-rehearsal for the Second World War, was a cause, a microcosm of all the grand narratives of mid-century ideological struggle.
