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The Spanish Civil War ... nearly 100,000 peasants had appropriated 400,000 hectares of land and perhaps as many as 1 million hectares by the start of the civil war; ...
The Right won the elections of 1933 following an unsuccessful uprising by General José Sanjurjo in August 1932, who would later lead the coup that started the civil war. Events in the period following November 1933, called the "black biennium", seemed to make a civil war more likely.
The Timeline of the Spanish Civil War allows observation of the proceedings of the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. History of the Spanish Civil War, by year
The war began on July 17, 1936, with an attempted coup organized by generals in the Spanish Republican Armed Forces. [1] The rebellion failed to overthrow the government quickly, however, the rebels gained control over large sections of the country. [2] [3] Their power bases were centered in the west and south of the country.
The ensuing provisional government evolved into the relatively short-lived Second Spanish Republic. The Spanish Civil War began in 1936 and ended on 1 April 1939 with the victory of General Francisco Franco and his coalition of allied organizations commonly referred to as the Nationalists. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany aided Franco in the ...
Start of Spanish Reconquista. Umayyad invasion of Gaul (719–759) ... Culmination of a Galician–Portuguese civil war in the Kingdom of León.
The Spanish Civil War began with a failed coup d'état against the Popular Front Government of the Spanish Republic by Spanish Army officers on 18 July 1936. In Madrid, the Republican government was unsure what to do.
After the end of the war, the Spanish Republic formed a government-in-exile in Paris and Mexico City. Between the start of the civil war and Spanish transition to democracy and the reconciliation with the Spanish Republican government in exile in 1977, nations decided when, how, and if they recognised the government of Spain.