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Spanish Civil War Two Loyalist soldiers operate a mounted machine gun in a sandbagged trench during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. Armored vehicle carrying Franco soldiers drives through Plaza Catalina in Barcelona as crowds line the street during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. A large formation of uniformed soldiers marches in rows down a crowded street lined with onlookers in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, late 1930s. International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War Spanish Civil War Italian soldiers operate an artillery gun behind protective shields on a barren landscape near Navalcarnero, outside Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War in October 1936.
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Spanish Civil War, (1936–39), military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides. The Nationalists, as the rebels were called, received aid from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The Republicans received aid from the Soviet Union as well as from the International Brigades, composed...

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