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The civil war starts because a revolt by right-wing Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain.
General Francisco Franco broadcasts a message calling for army officers to join the uprising and overthrow Spain's leftist Republican government. -
During 1937,Franco unifed the Nationalist forces under the command of the Falange helped by Germany and Italy with a lot of planes,tanks and guns.
The Republican side was helped by the Soviet Union ,thousands of communist and other radicals of France ,the USSR, the United States and other places. The most significant contribution of these foreing units was the sucessful defense of Madrid unitil the end of the war. -
Nationalits drove to the Mediterranean Sea and cut Republican territory in two.Later in the year, Franco mounted a major offensive againsts Catalonia.The government tire to sue for peace in May,but Franco demanded unconditional surrender, and the war rager on. The Nationalits army pressed shourtward from Teruel and along the coast toward the capital of the Republican at Valence.
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In January, Barcelona, the capital of Republicans, was captured for the Nacionalists an after that, the rest of Catalonia fell. Then, the Republicans negotiated the peace with Franco but he refused.
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On March the victorius Nationalits entered Madrid in triumph, and the Spanish Civil War came to an end. Up to a milion lives were lost in the conflict, the most devastating in Spanish history.
