Modern Era · Europe · War

1936

Spanish Civil War begins

July 17, 1936

Army officers led by Francisco Franco rose against the elected Republic, expecting a quick coup. Instead Spain split in half and bled for three years. Germany and Italy sent bombers to Franco; Stalin sent tanks and commissars to the Republic; thirty-five thousand volunteers from around the world came to fight fascism with rifles.

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Edward VIII abdicates · Europe · Politics

Before and after in Europe

Before: September 15, 1935: Nuremberg Laws strip German Jews
After: April 26, 1937: Guernica bombed

Before and after in War

Before: October 3, 1935: Italy invades Ethiopia
After: April 26, 1937: Guernica bombed

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.