Question

Who fought on the side of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War?

Answer 1

The correct answer is that international volunteers fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.

The Republican side was formed around the Government, formed by the Popular Front, which in turn was composed of a coalition of Republican parties - Republican Left and Republican Union - with the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, which had joined the Marxists - Leninists of the Communist Party of Spain and the POUM, the Syndicalist Party of anarchist origin and in Catalonia the left nationalists led by Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya. It was supported by the labor movement and the UGT and CNT unions, which also pursued the social revolution. The Basque Nationalist Party had also opted for the republican side, when the republican courts were about to approve the Statute of Autonomy for the Basque Country.

Although it received hardly any external support from the allied powers of the Second World War, due to the International Non-Intervention Committee, the support of the USSR, which together with Mexico together with France and Poland at the beginning of the contest, stand out; they contributed large quantities of military equipment and advisors, notoriously also the support of what were called the International Brigades.

Answer 2

International volunteers fought on the side of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. The fight was because of the economic difficulties at that time.  

 

EXPLANATION  

 

In the 1920s Spain came under the leadership of dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera. Spain experienced economic difficulties in those days so that the polarization became very massive. In the early 1930s labor unrest worsened the situation. The climax in the February 16, 1936 election led to the Popular Popular Front which was later responded by the Extreme Right on July 1936 with a coup attempt. This effort then became a trigger for civil war.

Important actors in this coup;

• Nationalist: General Francisco Franco supported Mussolini Italy and Nazi Germany

• Republicans: Francisco Largo Caballero and Juan Negrin who received assistance from the Soviet Union and the International Brigade (international volunteers from Europe and North America.  

When the first military coup failed to control the entire nation, civil war was inevitable. They fought very brutally and attacked each other. On 18 November 1938 the Republicans invasion ended at the Ebro River. A few months later, precisely on March 28, 1939, around 200,000 Nationalist troops managed to enter Madrid without resistance. The Republican government surrendered. General Franco then dictatorial rule until the end of his life on November 20, 1975.

 

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KEYWORD: Francisco Franco, republicans, international volunteer

Subject: History

Class: 10 - 12

Subchapter: Spanish Civil War