The Spanish civil war

Spanish Civil War
Part of the Interwar period
Members of the XI International Brigade of the Republican International Brigades at the Battle of Belchite ride on a Soviet T-26 tank.
Date 17 July 1936 – 1 April 1939 (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day) Location Spain Spanish protectorate in Morocco Spanish Guinea Mediterranean Sea North Atlantic Result Nationalist victory End of the Second Spanish Republic Establishment of Francoist Spain
Belligerents
Republicans CNT/FAI Popular Front UGT Generalitat of Catalonia EC EG (1936–37) PG International Brigades Supported by  Soviet Union  Mexico Foreign volunteers	Nationalists FET y de las JONS (from 1937) FE de la JONS (1936–37) (1936–37) CEDA (1936–37) RE (1936–37) Supported by Italy Portugal Germany Foreign volunteers
Commanders and leaders
Republican leaders Manuel Azaña Julián Besteiro Francisco Largo Caballero Juan Negrín Indalecio Prieto Vicente Rojo Lluch José Miaja Juan Modesto Juan Hernández Saravia Carlos Romero Giménez Buenaventura Durruti † Lluís Companys José Antonio Aguirre	Nationalist leaders José Sanjurjo † Emilio Mola † Francisco Franco Gonzalo Queipo de Llano Juan Yagüe Miguel Cabanellas † Manuel Goded Llopis † Manuel Hedilla Manuel Fal Conde Mohamed Meziane
Strength
850,000 infantry 1,500 artillery pieces 800 tanks and AFVs 1,300 aircraft 1 ironclad 3 cruisers 16 destroyers 12 submarines 1938 strength 450,000 infantry 350 aircraft 200 tanks	800,000 infantry 2,000 artillery pieces 300 tanks and AFVs 1,500 aircraft 1 ironclad 4 cruisers 5 destroyers 2 submarines 1938 strength 600,000 infantry 600 aircraft 290 tanks
Casualties and losses
175,000 killed in action	110,000 killed in action
610,000 dead 450,000 fled

Nationalist victory

Supported by

Supported by

The Spanish Civil War, (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española), widely known in Spain simply as The Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil) or The War (Spanish: La Guerra), took place from 1936 to 1939. The Republicans, who were loyal to the democratic, left-leaning and relatively urban Second Spanish Republic, in an alliance of convenience with the Anarchists, fought against the Nationalists, a Falangist, Carlist, and largely aristocratic conservative group led by General Francisco Franco. Although the war is often portrayed as a struggle between democracy and fascism, historians consider it more accurately described as a struggle between leftist revolution and rightist counter-revolution. Ultimately, the Nationalists won, and Franco then ruled Spain for the next 36 years, from April 1939 until his death in November 1975.

The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces, originally under the leadership of José Sanjurjo, against the elected, leftist government of the Second Spanish Republic, at the time under the leadership of President Manuel Azaña. The Nationalist group was supported by a number of conservative groups, including the Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas, or CEDA), monarchists such as the religious conservative (Catholic) Carlists, and the Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista, a fascist group. Sanjurjo was killed in an aircraft accident while attempting to return from exile in Portugal, whereupon Franco emerged as the leader of the Nationalists.

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