Spanish Civil War

Name: Spanish Civil War
Start: 1936
End: 1939

1936 CE – 1939 CE

The dress rehearsal for World War II — fascists, communists, and democrats clashed in a brutal civil war that killed half a million Spaniards and tested the weapons of the next world war.

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1936–1939 civil war in Spain

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Spanish Civil War

1936 CE – 1939 CE

The dress rehearsal for World War II — fascists, communists, and democrats clashed in a brutal civil war that killed half a million Spaniards and tested the weapons of the next world war.

Standing in 1936 CE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

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