Introduction
The Spanish Civil War was a brutal conflict spanning three years, from 1936 to 1939, between the governmental Republican forces and the Nationalist rebels. It began with a pronunciamento[1] from the generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces on July 18, 1936, a military attempt to rise against Spain’s democratically elected Second Republic. The origins of the Civil War can be attributed to the cumulative social, cultural and political tensions which developed throughout the country, provoked by impacts of the concurrent European industrialisation and urbanisation. It is apparent that a mass of factors contributed to the multiple problems dividing Spain and thus resulted in the outbreak of civil war.
[1] A declaration of opposition, a form of military rebellion or coup