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[[Image:Fin de la guerra.jpg|right|thumb]]
[[Image:Fin de la guerra.jpg|right|thumb]]
The '''Spanish Civil War''' was a conflict within [[Spain]] between 1936 and 1939 between the Republican forces, a [[left-wing]] coalition including communists, socialists and Anarchists, and the [[fascism|fascist]] Nationalist forces under [[Francisco Franco|General Francisco Franco]] comprising generally wealthy [[Monarchy|Monarchists]] and [[Catholicism|Catholics]] who opposed the separatist Republicans.
The '''Spanish Civil War''' was a conflict within [[Spain]] between 1936 and 1939 between the Republican forces, a [[left-wing]] coalition including communists, socialists and Anarchists, and the [[fascism|fascist]] Nationalist forces under [[Francisco Franco|General Francisco Franco]] comprising generally wealthy [[Monarchy|Monarchists]] and [[Catholicism|Catholics]] who opposed the separatist Republicans.
The Nationalists were eventually victorious, and executed over a hundred thousand of their opponents shortly afterwards.
The Nationalists were eventually victorious, and executed over a hundred thousand of their opponents shortly afterwards.
== Franco's dictatorship ==
''General Franco's victory marked the beginning of a forty-year dictatorship in Spain (1939-1975). In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Hitler sought Franco's support for his own military campaign, but Spain was in no position to provide either financial or human aid. Although the Spanish Civil War had been a training field for the
battles to be waged in the Second World War.''<ref> [http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/history/civilwar.asp Spanish Civil War]</ref>
[[Image:German plane.jpg|thumb|right]]
[[Image:German plane.jpg|thumb|right]]