Spanish civil war pictures
Spanish civil war pictures with captions.
24 Photographs from the Brutal Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War took place from 1936 to 1939.
Spanish civil war pictures
The Republicans, loyal to the democratic, leftist urban Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with the Anarchists, fought against the Nationalists, a Falangist totalitarian, aristocratic, conservative group lead by Francisco Franco.
The war began after a pronunciamiento, a declaration of opposition by a group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces against to elected leftist government of the Second Spanish Republic.
The Nationalist group gained the support of the right wing groups such as the conservative Catholic Carlists, the monarchists, and other conservative groups.
The Nationalist coup was supported by military units from the Spanish protectorate in Morocco, Pamplona, Burgos, Zaragoza, Valladolid, Cadiz, Cordoba, and Seville.
The Nationalist forces received munitions and soldiers from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The Republican government was supported by the