Abstract

In this study, we try to explore the concept of Spanish Civil War in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on Spanish Civil War and its relation with Western Civilization. The Spanish Civil War event was a civil war, by entering the ideological, political and economic convulsed the rest of Europe in the thirties, beyond the borders of Spain and attracted the intervention of foreign countries that used the conflict to make the country in a military testing ground, on the eve of the Second World War. The research also analyzes many aspects of Spanish Civil war and tries to gauge its effect on Western Civilization. It also focuses on the main consequences of the Spanish civil War. Finally, the paper ends up with the Spanish civil war crisis of Democracy.

The Spanish Civil War

Introduction

The Spanish Civil War event was a civil war, by entering the ideological, political and economic convulsed the rest of Europe in the thirties, beyond the borders of Spain and attracted the intervention of foreign countries that used the conflict to make the country in a military testing ground, on the eve of the Second World War.

Domestically, the social tensions arising from the country's economic backwardness and unequal distribution of wealth had created a climate of dissatisfaction from the people to their rulers who, besides having proved unable to advance. The modernization of the country and raise the living standards of its inhabitants, had not even been able to achieve the stability necessary for smooth progress in the evolution of political life. Thus, the deep political divisions were added to social unrest and created an explosive situation that led to the outbreak of a terrible civil war that divided and devastated Spain (Alpert, 67).

Origins and development

The conflict began on July 17, 1936, with the rise of a fraction of the army led by Generals Mola and Franco, who moved from Spanish Morocco, to take charge of military operations, in order to end the Constitutional Republican government, led at that time by the leftist Popular Front coalition. The rebellious side stood the forces of right and extreme right, i.e. a traditional Catholic rural Spain of the leading landowners and connected to big business with many foreign interests. While smallholder's farmers enrolled in the Falange and the Carlist groups, (called "super-duper") was the widespread support the rebels. The members of the middle classes favored one side or the other depending on their location.

Although the rebels called themselves the "national", in reference to its purpose of uniting the country under a central government that exalts the Spanish nation, received-from the very beginning and throughout the conflict, the aid of German and Italian troops, in addition to supplies of arms, and ammunition. For his part, Soviet aid and the wave of sympathy aroused by the case of the Republic in Europe and America (particularly Mexico) gave way to the formation of units of foreign volunteers from different nationalities, called International Brigades, composed of veterans the First World War, ...