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José Sanjurjo y Sacanell (Spanish: [saŋˈxuɾxo]; 28 March 1872 – 20 July 1936) was a Spanish military officer who was one of the military leaders who plotted the July 1936 coup d'état that started the Spanish Civil War. He was endowed the nobiliary title of "Marquis of the Rif" in 1927. [1]
The concept of absolute war was a theoretical construct developed by the Prussian military theorist General Carl von Clausewitz in his famous but unfinished philosophical exploration of war, Vom Kriege (in English, On War, 1832). It is discussed only in the first half of Book VIII (there are only a couple of references to it elsewhere) and it ...
Cadets take the oath to serve Spain, 1915. 20 years later most of them, usually in senior officer ranks, will have to decide what that means. The breakup of Spanish armed forces of July 1936 was the process of decomposition of the Second Spanish Republic's military and public order formations into two factions: the one which supported the government (loyalists, later called Republicans) and ...
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.
Conflicts of 1936 included the ending of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, and the opening of the Spanish Civil War. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Franco and other rebel commanders during the Civil War, c. 1936–1939 The designated leader of the uprising, General José Sanjurjo , died on 20 July 1936 in a plane crash. In the nationalist zone, "political life ceased". [ 110 ]
Shortly before their executions in August 1936, Kamenev and Zinoviev had denounced Bukharin as a traitor during their trial. At the December 1936 plenum of the Central Committee, Yezhov accused Bukharin and Alexei Rykov of treachery. Bukharin and Rykov confessed to conspiring against Stalin and were executed on 15 March 1938, on the same day ...
As early as May 1936 the British formed armed Jewish units equipped with armoured vehicles to serve as auxiliary police. [83] Arab strike 1936. Car with brooms to sweep away tacks thrown by strikers. British military parade in Jerusalem, 1936 Palestinian Arabs search the rubble of a house demolished by the British military in Lydda, 1936.