spanish civil war

     

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Trivia about spanish civil war

  • In the spring of 1939 Franco won unconditional victory in this war begun in 1936
  • Hemingway set "A Farewell to Arms" in WWI & "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in this war
  • Hemingway's novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" primarily drew upon his experiences during this pre-WWII conflict
  • Americans fought in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in this 1936-39 conflict
  • It's safe now to attend Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a battlefront in this 1930s conflict
  • It's the war that took place on the Iberian Peninsula from 1936 to 1939
  • In this 1936-39 war, the Axis Powers supported the Nationalists & the USSR backed the Loyalists
  • In 1936 Orwell headed south to fight in & write about this war; he got shot in the throat & wrote a book
  • "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
  • Garcia Lorca wrote "Lament for a Bullfighter" in 1935, but a year later he was the lamented one in this war
  • 1937:German planes bomb Almeria
  • "The Great Crusade", "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
  • "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
  • Robert Capa's 1936 "Death of a Loyalist" is one of the most famous photos from this or any war