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Spanish Civil War begins

July 17, 1936Mack Dean14378 views

The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that anticipated much of the terrible decade that was to follow. The refusal of the British and French governments to do anything to stop German and Italian military intervention on the Fascist side was a rehearsal for the ignoble capitulation to Hitler’s demands on Czechoslovakia of 1938 at Munich.

Spanish women defending the Republic in the Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo, 1936. Wikimedia Commons/Google Cultural Institute. The Spanish Civil War began ...
Spanish women defending the Republic in the Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo, 1936. Wikimedia Commons/Google Cultural Institute. The Spanish Civil War began …
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