Letters From The Spanish Civil War

Although there are many reasons why the Spanish-American war took place, the most important was Spain's resentment of Cuba's desire to also become an independent nation. Since Cuba was one of Spain's last territories, they were unwilling to allow independence. As a result, conflict between the two parties erupted. Since Cuba was smaller and less equipped to fight than Spain, their economy took a tumble. Due to the fact that the United States had a great deal of money invested in Cuba's sugar resources, many Americans felt the need to wage war. Additionally, there were separate events that caused anger to American Citizens. One such event was the destruction of a U.S. ship used to protect the American citizens in Cuba. Although the ship's

To what extent was Mexico’s independence from Spain a “full-scale assault on dependency”? This essay will investigate how the Mexican independence from Spain was only slightly a “full-scale assault on dependency”, due to several political and social conflicts. Firstly, Mexico remained a monarchy (but not under the control of Spain) after the insurgency. Secondly, there was still an official state religion in Mexico. Another reason is because social conflicts reduced the desire for independence .On the other hand, it assaulted dependency because there were some changes within the social hierarchy, and because Mexico was free from Spain.

The evidence that supports the idea that the Nationalists won the Spanish Civil War because of their strength is abundant. The unity of the Nationalists was obvious and meant that there was both great organisation and co-ordination, meaning there was no ambiguity in the goals set by those fighting for the Nationalists. Franco’s plans for a long term war meant that he was able to ensure the defeat of the Republic by slowly squeezing the life out of the Republic war effort, which already was heavily reliant on Soviet aid, by securing Republican strong holds throughout Spain. The contrasting lack of unity on the Republic as well

People who were against fascism from around the world traveled to Spain to fight Franco.

The popular front was a party of left-wing elements with an alliance of communist, radical, and socialist elements. The officers had never intended to start a war. Danger! To Arms, a radio broadcast in Madrid, tells others “Workers, anti-fascists, and labouring people! Rise as one man! Prepare to defend the Republic, national freedom and the democratic liberties won by the people!” The speech is a sign showing how dangerous this whole situation is getting. The troops that have remained loyal to the Republic were carrying on the struggle in Morocco and Canary Islands. Meanwhile, by July 21st, the Nationalists had achieved control in Spanish Morocco, the Canary Islands, and parts of the Balearic Islands. Although the Republicans’ and the Nationalists organized their respected territories and tried to avoid violence, the Republicans’ were very violent in the beginning stages of the war. However, Nationalists carried out violence until the end. It was believed that Nationalists caused the most violence. Allies played a big role in violence and obtaining territories. The Republicans’ recieved aid from the Soviet Union and International Brigades, with volunteers from Europe and the United States. The Nationalists had aid from Italy and

-Hitler’s Germany was cautious when the appeal for help came from the rebels. He was not yet ready for a general European war. Hermann Goring was important in the decision to support the rebels. Both he and Hitler wanted to stop the spread of communism, but Goring also wanted to test out his Luftwaffe in live conditions. There were economic and strategic benefits for Germany too: raw materials could be gained and deploying to Spain could give Germany the potential to hamper Anglo-French maritime communications. Hitler didn’t think the war would last long, and only wanted to commit limited aid. As well as its support of Franco in the initial stages of the war, the Condor Legion perpetrated the now infamous bombing of Guernica and they played a pivotal role supporting the nationalists in taking Catalonia. German involvement was important to the outcome of the war as is played a crucial military role at critical times.

The Latin American Wars for independence were a turbulent time for former Spanish colonies. What ended as a success in achieving independence for many of the Latin American nations, did not begin with turbulence nor success. In-fact Spain and Portugal had ruled their American colonies for more than three centuries without professional military garrisons. In all those years there was not a single uprising that suggested irreconcilable differences with Madrid or Lisbon (Judge & Langdon, 2016, p.574). Most Latin American nations owe their liberation to a chain of events set in motion by Napoleon. In 1810, Spanish Americans or Criollos, sized the opportunity to carry out subtle revolutions while Spanish King Carlos IV had been imprisoned by the

The Spanish civil war of 1936-1939 was an important conflict in Spain’s history. This war was initiated by a military revolt led by General Francisco Franco on the 17 July 1936 and ended with Franco’s victory on the 1 April, 1939. This victory resulted in the replacement of the Second Spanish Republic with the conservative dictatorship of Franco. This conflict triggered the clash of the various cultures and ideologies within Spain. One important example of an ideological clash was that of Communism versus Fascism. This clash was so important that, based on an analysis of the level of involvement of Fascist and Communist factions in said clash, one must concede that the conflict between Communism and Fascism was represented to a great

The Spanish Civil War is the name given to the struggle between loyalist and nationalist Spain for dominance in which the nationalists won and suppressed the country for the following thirty nine years. However, because of the larger political climate that the Spanish Civil War occurred in, it is impossible to view the war as a phenomenon contained within one nation. Despite its obvious domestic orientation as a civil war it was a major international conflict. The reason for this, I would maintain, is the political dogma which surrounded the war. This essay takes the form of a political survey of the

     The government of Spain dissolved once again and Franco was removed from the general staff. He was moved to duty in the Canary Islands. Although it was against Franco’s nature to oppose the government, he joined Nationalist rebels against the government.

Generalissimo Francisco Franco came into power after his victory in the Civil war in 1939 and ruled over Spain till his death in 1975. In this 40-year period Spain was massive changed that causes much debate as to the political nature of Franco’s regime whether it is fascist or something different, Francoism. To understand if Franco’s regime was fascist, fascism must first be defined. There are many working definitions of a fascist regime, Stanley Payne’s states that the dictator must alien his regime to the idea of anti-isms, them being aintiliberalism, antidemocratic, anticonservatism, anticommunism and antidemocratic. Payne states these are fundamental in the description of a fascist regime. Another useful definition is Robert Griffin, stating that a fascist regime will use symbolism, violence to pursue its political aims, with the importance aimed at expansionism. Finally Griffin also states the need of the dictator to implement an authoritarian and totalitarian government. All these help to create a fascist regime and more importantly a truly fascist dictator. There is little doubt Franco holds to some of these definitions yet in later year the idea of Francosim becomes more viable however to understand if Franco was a truly fascist dictator we must look to the similarities and differences and determine by examining Franco’s rise politically his general style of government and finally his foreign policies it will determined whether Franco was a truly fascist dictator.

The resistance started forming after the civil war had ended. The Basque government had had headquarters in France and felt as if Spain had come and torn them apart from their country and their

On the other hand, was the conservative nationalists represented by the Church, the army and many large landowners and industrialists. Most of which wanted Spain to return to the Golden Ages of sixteenth century Catholic Spain and were in favour of the Monarchy in order to remain an authoritarian state. This division was highlighted further by a number of pronunciamientos[6] and uprisings between the two sides adding to the increased political tension. For the right, ‘they saw the defence of religious interests as their fundamental political task.

4) when the Spanish civil war took place in 1936, Mussolini sent extensive help to Franco, the right wing Nationalist leader, hoping to establish a third fascist state in Europe and to get naval bases in Spain from which he could threaten France. His justification was that he wanted to prevent the spread of Communism.

The actions of Seguridad can be attributed to the state of Spain as per article five of the Draft Articles on State Responsibility. Seguridad, although not an organ of Spain, was empowered by the law of