Explain to me the Spanish Civil War as simple as you can. Why did it start? Who fought who? What were the major battles of the war? How did the Nationalists defeat the Republicans?
>>1364583
It started short after the II Republic was funded, some veterans/fascist/traditionalists/reactionaries generals such as Franco, the soontobe next big boss, started a rebellion from the canary isles and in different places from the peninsula.
Basically there were two sides: The fascist one composed of veterans, soldiers, "policemen" and extreme right wing such as Falange and the Republican side composed of people who liked the republic, communists, anarchists, some international soldiers and left wingers.
The real major battle was The battle of Ebro, but the major carnages happened in towns and cities. Another important thing was the bombardment of Guernica, which inspired Picasso to make his famous painting EL Guernica.
I don't really know how they won, there are a bunch of different explanations. Some say is because the Republican side was too fragmented and Franco centralized the power on himself, some say is because Feminism is cancer. Look it up yourselves because I, a spaniard, don't even know.
All in all, the spanish civil war more a war of brothers as they say, literal brothers killing eachother because of affiliation to a party or another. It's very sad, not because the fascists won, or because we lost the Republic, but because the whole scope of the war focused on small towns and villages where they didn't even have wheat to farm. It was truly miserable.
After the libertarian organisations defeated the military on July 19 1936, there was possibly the greatest revolution in human history. It shouldn't really be looked at so much as a civil war but as a revolution and counterrevolution. George Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia is a really good account of this repression by what was basically a successful Stalinist conspiracy to take over the Republican government.
This was successful mainly because the other countries had a policy of non-intervention, the excuse for this being an opposition to the USSR, but it became a self-fulfilling prophecy as the USSR was the only country which aided the republic and had a monopoly on the badly needed foreign aid.
The outcome of the war was mainly decided by Britain, who led the other countries with the non-intervention policy while Germany and Italy supplied the golpistas. The British navy intervened in favour of Franco's side to block supplies to the republic, and the American government did nothing meaningful to stop Texaco from sending oil to the fascists.
After the Stalinist counterrevolution there was a forced militarisation program of the anarchist militias, the best account of this is given in A Day Mournful and Overcast. The Stalinists also sent in tanks and sent soldiers from the front to break up anarchist collectives. With governmental authority asserted, there was a massive drop in morale because people were no longer fighting for freedom and the fulfillment of their own desires, and end to years of injustice and social tension.
The republic lost the war, and the Francoist regime broke the back of the CNT and killed hundreds of thousands of people. The liberal powers never helped, not then or after WW2. They even fought beside Franco's Spain on a number of occasions.
This is my very biased view of it, all views of it are incredibly biased so be careful, especially with liberal scholars who we usually presume to be objective.
>>1364620
>Falange
>far right
By the way, you're omitting that the communist barbarians were carrying the Red Terror.
>>1365228
You're omitting that all fascists must die
all you need to know is that the good guys won OP
>>1365271
This so much
It was started because jews wanted to take over the world via bolshevism. However, the heroic falangists and their german + other allies fought back against this threat and prevailed.
>>1365249
Franco was not a fascist
he literally could have been a XIX century Latin American caudillo, and he wasnt even that different from Primo de Rivera from a few decades before.
Spain spent all its American fortune in religious wars, fascism wasnt necessary for someone like Franco to exist in Spain.
He wasnt to be succeeded by the current kings, acting themselves as catholic kings, but the current kings prefered to be modern figureheads without any power of a parlamentary democracy.
The kings were more modern than Franco.
>>1367165
Heres your (You)
>>1364583
Spaniard here, mostly what other anons have told before but there has something else.
We were at war with Morocco and the army was shit so they decided to take in more soldiers throught draft. You could just pay a high amount of money and skip it but most people couldn't, so they were dragged to war, which lead to disgust for the population.
So thw leftist(republican, communist, anarchists) grew in power, and the republic was established. Since "pronunciamientos" (where a high ranked militar exposed his political views) were prohibited and the risk of a coup d'état was high, the central government decided to move every high rank to the Canarian and Balearian isles which made that they could plan easily.
During war most of the production was stablished in the Basque County and Catalonia so the rebels had to cut the communication. Also, the Republica didn't get almost help, since everyone refused to excepting the URSS. When the british finally decided to help it was too late. And adding the fact that the anarchists and communist decided that it was the best moment to try to start establishing their state, so this led to even bigger diferences. Lastly, the Franco's army was mostly composed from the professional army.
