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Throughout World War II, Spanish diplomats of the Franco government extended their protection to Eastern European Jews, especially in Hungary. Jews claiming Spanish ancestry were provided with Spanish documentation without being required to prove their case and either left for Spain or survived the war with the help of their new legal status in ...
The Crisis of 1917 is the name that Spanish historians have given to the series of events that took place in the summer of 1917 in Spain.In particular, three simultaneous challenges threatened the government and the system of the Restoration: a military movement (the Juntas de Defensa), a political movement (the Parliamentary Assembly, organized by the Regionalist League of Catalonia in ...
1917–1921: Russian Civil War. 1917–1918: Red Army invasion of Georgia; 1917–1921: Ukrainian War of Independence. 1917–1921: Ukrainian–Soviet War; 1918–1919: Polish–Ukrainian War; 1918–1924: Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks. 1918: Left SR uprising; 1921: Kronstadt rebellion; 1918–1922: Heimosodat. 1918: Viena expedition
Francisco Largo Caballero, one of the leaders of the UGT during the 1917 general strike. The plans for the general strike were altered when on 19 July 1917, coinciding with the Assembly of Parliamentarians meeting in Barcelona, a strike by the Valencian railroad workers, affiliated to the UGT, began due to a labor dispute that they maintained with the Company of the Iron Roads of Northern Spain.
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
End of Abbasids' efforts to assert their rule in Al-Andalus and end of Fihrids prominence; Husayn of Zaragoza accepts a truce. Charlemagne's campaign in the Iberian Peninsula (778–816) Battle of Roncevaux Pass (778) Siege of Barcelona (801) Siege of Tortosa (808–809) Battle of Huesca (812) Battle of Majorca (813) Battle of Pancorbo (816)
The aftermath of the First World War in Italy resulted in great levels of unemployment and an economic crisis. For example, by the end of 1920, the Italian lira was worth only one-quarter of its 1914 value and in the first half of 1921, the cost of living for an average working-class family was 560% higher than it had been in 1914. [11]
The period of events between 1936 and 1945, beginning with the conflict in Spain and ending with the European portion of World War II, are commonly cited. [by whom?] The University of Massachusetts Boston argues 1945 as the end-date, but the beginning of the conflict in 1917 with the Russian Civil War.