Spanish Civil War ends
April 1939
After Franco's nationalist forces entered Madrid, the Republican government fled to exile and the war was over. Half a million Spaniards were dead. Two hundred thousand Republicans and their families crossed the Pyrenees into France, where many were interned. Franco would rule Spain with a firm Catholic hand for thirty-six years.
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Also in 1939 (4 other events on record)
- Germany invades Poland · Europe · War
- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact shocks the world · Europe · Politics
- Einstein warns Roosevelt about atom bomb · North America · Science
- The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind · North America · Culture
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