19361939 Opposing Sides Republicans the existing government those loyal to the established Republic urban workers agricultural labourers educated middle class Communists Socialists USSR ID: 204682
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Spanish Civil War
1936-1939Slide2
Opposing Sides
-Republicans
(the existing government)
-those loyal to the established Republic
urban workers, agricultural labourers, educated middle class
Communists
Socialists
USSR
International Brigades (volunteers from allied countries such as Britain, U.S., Canada)
-Nationalists
(rebels)
-General
Fransisco
Franco
-
Italy
&
GermanySlide3
Bombing of
Geurnica
Aerial attack on the Basque town of
Geurnica
by German Luftwaffe (Concorde division)
The
bombing is considered one of the first raids in the history of modern military aviation on a defenseless civilian
population
1,654 people killed (according to Basque government) – the numbers are disputedSlide4Slide5Slide6Slide7Slide8
http://crfranke.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/guernica_large.jpg
Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937Slide9
Symbolism
Bull = brutality of German Luftwaffe
Horse = savagely wounded land of Spain
Lamp = conscience of humankind
Torn bodies and agonised faces = the horrors of war