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Bluffer’s Guide
Spanish
Civil War
SPAIN, 17 JULY 1936 – 1 APRIL 1939
Did
you know?
George Orwell was among
4,000 British volunteers who
fought against Franco’s
forces within the anti-
fascist International
Brigades.
Timeline
18 JULY 1936 8 AUGUST 1936 26 APRIL 1937 3-7 MAY 1937
The insurgent France closes its Civilians in the Basque Trouble at a telephone
Nationalists take Seville Spanish border. Both town of Guernica are exchange in
within a day of the it and the UK decide bombed by German Barcelona sees
military coup being not to intervene and Italian aircraft. the various leftist
declared in Spanish – unlike Germany, Franco’s propaganda factions split,
Morocco, with 3,000 Italy and Russia, unit attempts to leading them to fight
opponents reportedly who supply weapons deny Nationalist each other. About
executed within weeks. and aid to either side. involvement. 500 people are killed.
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