Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War
Date	17 July 1936 – 1 April 1939
Location	Spainball
Causes	Rights, Radicalism, Ideological differences, riots,
Result	Nationalist victory End of the Second Spanish Republicball Establishment of the Spanish State under the rule of Francisco Franco
Belligerents
Republicans: Republican Spainball Frente Popular POUM CNT-FAI UGT Cataloniaball Basqueball Supported by: Comintern Soviet Unionball Mexicoball Franceball Foreign Volunteers
Nationalists: Francoist Spainball Falangistas Carlistas CEDA Alfonsistas Spanish Moroccoball Supported by: Fascist Italyball Nazi Germanyball Portugalball
Strength
1936 strength: 800,000+ combatantsrefTemplate:Cite web</ref> 31 ships 12 submarines 13,000 Sailors 1938 strength: 450,000 infantry 350 aircraft 200 tanks 59,380 international volunteers 3,015 Soviet technicians 772 Soviet pilots
1936 strength: 58,000 Army 68,500 Gendarmes 16 operational ships 7,000 SailorsrefWarships of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)</ref> 1938 strength: 600,000 infantry 600 aircraft 290 tanks 50,000 Italian troops 16,000 German volunteers 10,000 Portuguese troops
Casualties
175,000 killed in action 100,000–130,000 civilians killed inside the Francoist zone
110,000 killed in action
Notes
149,213–2,000,000 total killed.

Spanish Civil War was war between Second Spanish Republicball, the dominate government of Spain, and Francoist Spainball for control over Spain and the future of the country. The war occurred during the Interwar period, but it dragged in major powers such as Soviet Unionball and Nazi Germanyball among others and the war would be a foreshadow for things to come for the rest of Europe in World War II.

History

The Second Spanish Republic was established in 1931 in the aftermath of social unease and increased opposition to the monarchy from failed policies, support for liberal policies, and the failed war of attrition against Moroccoball. The republic sought to create a modern, secular democratic republic for all of Spain, but the reforms were slow and slowed down even more as a result of the Great Depression. Right wingers got into power briefly, but they were defeated by the Popular Front, a coalition of leftist political parties and elements in Spain and these elements formed their own government known as Nationalist Spain and in 1936, the civil war began after an attempted coup by the Nationalists failed against the Republican government.

The Republican faction varied from supporters of the Liberal Democracy in Spain to Anarchists and Communists who were opposed to it but hated Fascism more, uniting them with Liberals and moderates in their hatred of Fascism.

The Nationalist faction was mostly centered around Far Right views like Fascism and Ultranationalism. Monarchists were also supporters of the Nationalist faction and fought for the Nationalists, even alongside those with opposing views such as Falangists. Many of  the Nationalists also felt that the Republican government, as well as the Far Left militias were too Anti-Clerical.

During the Spanish Civil War the Nationalists were more unified than the Republic. The Republic's allies were even more divided with the divide between the Anarchists and the rest of the Popular Front being the most noticable.  This gave the Nationalists an advantage as while there were obvious differences between different Nationalist factions like the Carlists and the Falangists, this was mostly set aside.

UKball, Franceball, Nazi Germanyball Kingdom of Italyball and Soviet Unionball all tried to agree to stay out and leave the war to the Spanish but this did not happen. Especially not with Germant and Italy who continued to aid the Nationalists.

Because of how divided the Popular Front was, this caused infighting among the Republicans and their Communist and Anarchist allies who would also fight each other, basically creating a civil war within a civil war. The Nationalists on the other hand were united under the leadership of Fransisco Franco and the division among the Republicans and Popular Front helped the Nationalists.

The Spanish Civil War was also notorious for its persecution of Catholics within Spain, resulting in about 7,000 killed. As of now, about 1,900 have been beatified, with 2,000 more on the way.

Combatants

Nationalist Faction

• Francoist Spainball
  • Falangists
  • Fascists
  • Nationalists
  • Monarchists
  •  Conservatives

Supported by:

• Nazi Germanyball
• Kingdom of Italyball
• Portugalball

Republican Faction

• Second Spanish Republicball
  • International Brigades
  • Communists 
  • Socialists
  • Anarcho-Communists/Anarcho-Syndicalists
  • Liberals
  • Centrists

Supported by:

• Soviet Unionball
• Mexicoball
• Franceball

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