

ambassador to Spain during the war, it was the " dress rehearsal" for World War II. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war had many facets and was variously viewed as class struggle, a religious struggle, a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, and between fascism and communism. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the unstable Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with anarchists of the communist and syndicalist variety, fought against an insurrection by the Nationalists, an alliance of Falangists, monarchists, conservatives and traditionalists, led by a military group among whom General Francisco Franco soon achieved a preponderant role. The Spanish Civil War ( Spanish: Guerra Civil Española) was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Soviet–British–French Moscow negotiations Apr.–Aug.Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War Mar.–Apr.Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine Mar.

German occupation of Czechoslovakia Mar.Undeclared German–Czechoslovak War Sep.Soviet–Czechoslovakia Treaty of Mutual Assistance 1935.Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance 1935.German–Polish declaration of non-aggression 1934.Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza.
