The Spanish Civil War: A Brief Overview
The Spanish Civil War
The National Area
The death of General Sanjurjo on July 20, 1936, while flying from Portugal to Spain, left the insurrection without a clear leader. On July 24, a general meeting of insurgents was held in Burgos. They agreed to establish the National Defense Board, which was configured as a provisional government of the Nationalist area.
Drastic measures were adopted: the establishment of a state of war throughout the country, the suppression of all liberties, and the disbanding
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Item 9: 1785-1795 hostility with France, aslamiento count of white flowers, death Louis XVI 1793-1795.
1795-1807 war friendship treaty of San Ildefonso united against defeat England Trafalgar 1805
Antencedentes G. Independec: 1807
Treaty of Fontainebleau, 1808 Mutiny of Aranjuez, abdicating from Bayonne, May 2
Phases G
(1808-1813) May-November 1808, November 1808-January 1812 Grande Armée, 1812-end war. Valençay 1813 Treaty recognizes victory
Statute of Bayonne in July 1808, Unoccupied Zone –
The Spanish Civil War: A Summary
MAP 1 – The Military Revolt (July 17, 1936)
The revolt began on July 17, 1936, in the garrison at Melilla. Similar uprisings occurred in Ceuta and Tetouan that afternoon. By the 18th, Franco had taken control of the Army of Africa. On October 19th, the revolt succeeded in Pamplona, led by Mola. This was the only location where the coup received widespread support. Many other Spanish cities joined the uprising.
The coup was successful in North Africa, the Balearic Islands (except Menorca), and most
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The Anti-Liberal Right-Wing Groups
Fascists:
They included the Boards of the National Syndicalist Offensive (JONS, 1931), founded by Ramiro Ledesma and Redondo, and the Spanish Falange (FE, 1931), led by José Antonio Primo de Rivera. The latter had a Catholic education and a more socially conservative approach. Both groups came together to form the FE de las JONS (1934), a small association of extremists who supported violence against the labor
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Economic Division of Europe
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan proposed generous aid to rebuild Europe after World War II. It included almost all Western European countries, except Spain, due to the belief that Franco’s regime was a non-democratic dictatorship. The most benefited countries were Britain, France, and Italy.
The U.S. aid did not reach the Eastern European states due to Stalin’s rejection of the conditions in 1949. As a response, the Soviet Union created COMECON, whose aim was to coordinate
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T.13 text. The Improvement of Jurisdiction
1) Introduction. It is a primary source of legal and political nature (law)
And public. The text was approved by Parliament and the Parliament Provincial Council, after negotiations between the central government in UCD and the Provincial Government of Navarre.
It is the year 1982 when the organization is completing the new “state of autonomies” emerged from the 1978 Constitution. It presents a selection of articles that address the following issues: definition