SPANISH CIVIL WAR 2024

Alfonso XIII of Spain

This was the King of Spain from 1886 till his abdication in 1931.

Primo de Rivera

This was the right wing military dictator who led Spain from 1923 till 1930, whose economic programs helped put Spain into massive debt.

Sotelo

Finance Minister under Primo de Rivera whose assassination was the spark that helped cause the coup that started the Spanish Civil War in 1936.

coup

a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government, there were two of these against Primo de Rivera and one against Azana

Gil Robles

This conservative leader of the Catholic political organization called CEDA led Spain from 1933 to 1935.

Azana

He was the liberal left-wing prime minister of Spain during the Second Republic from 1931 to 1933 and whose Popular Front won the election of 1936, starting the Spanish Civil War.

Second Republic

This was the period after the abdication of the King in 1931 up to the beginning of the Civil War in 1936; it was a period without a monarch.

republicans

This was the group that lost the Spanish Civil War.

international brigades

These groups came from all over the world to fight for Republican Spain against the Nationalists, Fascists, and Nazis.

Catalan separatism

This was a movement centered in the southeast of Spain in Barcelona to break away from Spain and found an independent country.

Franco

Ultimately, this person led the Nationalists and the political party that won the Spanish Civil War and became the dictator of Spain for 36 years.

Africanistas (Africa Corps)

This was the branch of the Spanish Army that fought the war in Morocco and helped to lead the coup that started the Spanish Civil War.

Falange Party

This was the right wing, authoritarian political party, similar to Fascism, led by Franco.

Condor Legion

This was the airforce and army loaned by Nazi Germany to help assist the Nationalists during the Civil War.

Popular Front

This was a coalition of left wing political parties and groups whose victory in the 1936 election helped spark the Spanish Civil War.

Nationalists

This was the right win conservative group who won the Spanish Civil War.

General Sanjurjo

This military leader was one of the coup leaders who started the Civil War but died in a plane crash right at the start.

CEDA

This was the conservative Catholic political party formed by Gil Robles.

PSOE

The Spanish Socialist Workers Party.

Bienio Negro

This two year period was during the Second Republic when CEDA and the right were in control of the Spanish government.

Hitler and Mussolini

They assisted the Nationalists in the Civil War, providing tanks, airplanes, and more than 60,000 troops to help them win.

Stalin and USSR

They assisted the Republicans in the Civil War, providing outdated weapons but also bad strategy on how to fight.

Non-interventionism

These prevented the USA, France, and UK from getting involved in the Spanish Civil War.

Spanish-American War

In this event Spain lost nearly all of the their colonies, except Morocco

Rif War

France and Spain combined to suppress Moroccan guerrillas

Grandees

Another name for the "planter" class of settler who often used their elevated position and taxes for personal profit

CNT

Anarchist trade union in Spain

Texaco

What US oil company helped support Franco's regime by extending credit and providing fuel?

PCE

Spain's Communist Party

UGT

Major Spanish trade union, historically affiliated with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Left wing. Primo De Rivera failed to get their support.

Pact of San Sebastian

1930 econ crisis caused opposition to form this Pact to get rid of the dictatorship. King Alfonso resigns- creates a provisional government. Pact succeeds winning 1931 municipal elections and Alfonso leaves for Paris.

Asturias Uprising

1934 uprising that Franco crushed for the Right Wing Government under Lerroux in the Second Spanish Republic.

turno pacifico

What was the name of the system prior to Primo de Rivera where political power changed hands on a regular basis?

December 1931 Constitution

A left wing constitution that provided for liberal reforms and separation of church and state

1923-1930

Years of the rule by Miguel Primo de Rivera

Barcelona

Which capital of Catalonia was a major industrial center and stronghold of the Republicans and the last place to fall in the Civil War?

Madrid

What capital city was caught in the middle of the Civil War?

Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Idealistic American volunteers who served in the Spanish Civil War, defending Spanish republican forces from the fascist General Francisco Franco's nationalist coup. Some 3,000 Americans served alongside volunteers from other countries.

Cortes Generales

Spain's Parliament

Patriotic Union (UP)

The conservative party created by Primo de Rivera.

Lerroux Government

Conservative Government that brought land reform to a halt. Cancelled the confiscation of land belonging to the grandees of Spain. Annulled the law which provided agricultural workers with the same protection as industrial employees.

Promotion by merit

Promoting military commanders on basis of deserving not by status; a reform instituted by Primo de Rivera

FAI

Spanish Anarchist Party

Leftist Republicans

Party led by Azana

Radical Republicans

Party led by Lerroux

1936-1939

When was the Spanish Civil War?

1931-1936

When was the Second Spanish Republic?

compulsory arbitration

arbitration required by statute for labor disputes between owners and factory workers; never extended into the countryside

Basque Region

An area in Northern Spain that has demanded own state.

Corporatism

A method of state-sponsored capitalism whereby authoritarian systems create or sanction a limited number of businesses