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    The Spanish Civil War

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    July 1936 and ended on 1 April 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists to wrest the dominated power. When progressive Popular Front government was elected in February 1936‚ Nationalists gathered to plan resistance and they were led by Francisco. The rebel force predicted that the war would end with a victory quickly and take the entire country. However‚ that was their miscalculation; the war spent much time than their expectation‚ and they got the Republicans’ withstanding strongly and

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    The Spanish Civil War in 1936-1939 strongly affected Pablo Neruda. The war started when General Francisco Franco in Spain Morocco organized the revolt against the lawful Republican government. The explosion of the civil war and the murder of Garcia Lorca‚ whom Neruda knew‚ made him join the Republican movement. During that period of time‚ Pablo Neruda started working on his collection of poems Espana en el Corazon. A poem I’m explaining a Few Things is included in the collection of poems

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    The Spanish Civil War began with a swift coup attempt on July 17th 1936 by Nationalist leader General Francisco Franco who was based in Spanish Morocco at the time. Franco ’s right winged Nationalist Spanish military had declared war on the newly-elected left winged Republic Popular Front government. With his initial failure to capture major Spanish cities amongst other predominant necessities Franco was forced to seek aid or have his uprising crushed. With Franco’s government being on the right side

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    Word count (excluding titles and references): 1397 The Spanish Civil War. Explain some of the causes and consequences The Spanish civil war was a major conflict between the Republicans and Nationalists‚ which was fierce and bloody as over 500‚000 people were killed. It began in July of 1936‚ and waged on until April of 1939. Although later conflicts have overshadowed it‚ the Spanish civil war remains one of the bloodiest conflicts of our modern era as well as one of the most consequential as

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    The Filmmakers Contributions

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    of Spain became a massive demand for Spaniards. With the rising of Francisco Franco and the Civil War rules towards film making were really powerful and with censorship being put up towards propaganda war and documentaries cinema was discouraged. Not only after Franco’s death that cinema became again a major factor of Spain and film makers such has Pedro Almodóvar‚ Fernando Fernán – Gómez‚ Vicente Aranda‚ Julio Medem and Jesús Franco began making films with genres that suited them and because censorship

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    to wage war against Britain Born in Austria Supported by smiler people Both wanted unity Wanted there countries to have justice Francisco Franco Made foreign investments Refused to fight the British; fear of defeat Stabilized Spain’s economy He used the armies power to protect Spain from liberal encroachment Supported by anti-communist Hitler and Franco had some stuff in common. They were both supported by anti-communist groups. And both wanted a simple thing like unity. They wanted to

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    old instrument being used for a new purpose. The military coup against the Republic began on 17 July 1936 among elements of the colonial army based in Spanish North Africa (Morocco). The captaincy of the Nationalists was gradually assumed by General Franco‚ leading forces he had brought from Morocco. On Oct. 1‚ 1936‚ he was named head of state and set up a government in Burgos. Though 27 countries‚ including Britain‚ France‚ the Soviet Union‚ Germany and Italy‚ signed a Non-Intervention pact in September

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    treaties always work as the basis for further integration of the European Union. Although the Franco-German relationship is old‚ it continues to be vital today. According to one German professor of the International Relations and the chair of the department of political and social sciences at the European University Institute (European University Institute‚ 2015)‚ Ulrich Krotz‚ “a long-term perspective on the Franco-German relationship

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    communist movement divided among followers of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his archrival‚ Leon Trotsky. In 1934 there was widespread labour conflict and a bloody uprising by miners in Asturias that was suppressed by troops led by General Francisco Franco. A succession of governmental crises culminated in the elections of February 16‚ 1936‚ which brought to power a Popular Front government supported by most of the parties of the left and opposed by the parties of the right and what remained of

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    Between 1933 and 1936‚ Hitler took part in many acts that directly violated the regulations of the Treaty of Versailles. Firstly‚ Hitler broke one of the major rules by building up his army to over 1 million people. The treaty stated that an army of over 100‚000 me was prohibited. He at first expanded his army in secret‚ but in 1935‚ he openly had a massive rearmament rally. Hitler also broke the treaty by moving his troops into Rhineland (a demilitarized zone). Of course another major act that challenged

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