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The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic . [ 10 ]
The Badajoz massacre occurred in the days after the Battle of Badajoz during the Spanish Civil War.Between 500 [1] and 4,000 [2] civilian and military supporters of the Second Spanish Republic were murdered by the Nationalist forces [3] after the seizure of the town of Badajoz on August 14, 1936.
The fall of Barcelona was the capture of Barcelona, until then in the Republican zone, by the Nationalists; it took place on January 26, 1939, during final phases of the Spanish Civil War. The event was part of the Catalan Offensive, which wiped out the Catalan enclave of the Republic. The offensive unfolded since late December 1938; the ...
The Spanish right-wing came to believed that the revolution justified a military coup. [10] The political repression that followed the 1934 Revolution set the country on a path towards civil war. In Catalonia, 3,400 people were arrested, including the entire Catalan government.
The final offensive of the Spanish Civil War took place between 26 March and 1 April 1939, towards the end of the Spanish Civil War.On 5 March 1939, the Republican Army, led by Colonel Segismundo Casado and the politician Julián Besteiro, rose against the socialist prime minister Juan Negrín, and formed a military junta, the National Defence Council (Consejo Nacional de Defensa or CND) to ...
The Spanish Civil War had begun on July 18, 1936, after a half-failed coup d'état: the rebels had not managed to take power, but the Republic could not crush them either. This left rebel forces in control of only approximately a third of the country. [ 9 ]
The Battle of Belchite refers to a series of military operations that took place between 24 August and 7 September 1937, in and around the town of Belchite (almost 4,000 inhabitants in 1936, decreasing to around 2,600 during the battle, from the repression and displacement of the first year), in Aragon during the Spanish Civil War, as part of a much bigger offensive to take Zaragoza, that ...
The Cartagena uprising (Spanish: Sublevación de Cartagena) was an uprising that occurred in Cartagena during the Spanish Civil War from 4 to 7 March 1939.. Soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army sympathetic to Segismundo Casado launched a rebellion against the Republican government of Juan Negrín in Cartagena, the main base of the Spanish Republican Navy.