How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe’s Battlefield

How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe’s Battlefield « Series from 2024

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How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe’s Battlefield surveys the Spanish Civil War, which was fought in the lull between the two World Wars. On the one hand, it was a local conflict on the margins of Europe.

On the other hand, the conflict can also be seen as a microcosm of war in the 20th century, with roots in the modern era’s central divides.

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The Spanish Civil War in a European Context

Two Spains? Long-Term Origins of War

The Second Republic: Short-Term Origins of War

The Opening Act: 1936’s Military Coup

A Hot Summer: The War’s First Months

The Two Sides: Nationalists and Republicans

Republican Revolution and Local Power

Rebuilding a Fractured Republican State

Francisco Franco Forms a Nationalist State

Women in the War: Workers, Nurses, Soldiers

Western Powers Agree to Nonintervention

The USSR and Mexico Aid the Republic

International Brigades Join the Civil War

The Fascist Powers Aid the Nationalists

Vatican and Church in Spain’s Religious War

The Propaganda War in a Divided Spain

Military Campaigns in the Spanish Civil War

Guernica to Madrid: The Urban Battlefield

The War as Soldiers Experienced It

How the Nationalists Organized for Victory

How the Republic Organized for the Long War

Repression on the Two Sides

The New Regime and the Aftermath of the War

The Spanish Memory Wars