Can you imagine what the world looked like in ancient and modern days? To answer this question, let’s talk about ancient days first. Last time, the technology was not advanced at that moment. This means that we had neither gadgets nor machines to conduct activities. Without them, the only mechanism to do so was to rely on humans’ work. It was very time-consuming and tiresome. The worst part was the world had suffered many malicious obstacles like the merciless war, slavery, and poverty before. Men and women were unequal. On the other hand, in modern days, most of the countries had already attained independence and become harmonious. We can carry out activities that we want. Men and women in society are equal. Many devices and machines are invented. We can even go overseas too. No more slavery and poverty in this tremendous world.
Right here, I am going to narrate about a situation that happened last time that is called the Spanish Civil War. What is it talking about? It was a conflict that originated in Spain from 1936 to 1939 that was fought between the Republican government, also known as the loyalists to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic, and the Nationalist rebels, who were an alliance of Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists, under the ordinance by General Francisco Franco. It was listed as the bloodiest conflict in Western Europe that had been experienced since the end of World War I in the year 1918. Due to a multinational political climate at that moment, the war was claimed to be a class, religious, and dictatorship and republican democracy between revolution and counterrevolution or between fascism and communism struggles variously. In the end, the Nationalists attained glorious achievement during the war in early 1939 and ruled Spain until the death of Francisco Franco in November 1975.
This war embarked after the partial failure of the coup d'état of July 1936 against the Popular Front Government by a troop of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces, with General Emilio Mola as the primary decider and leader, while General José Sanjurjo was a figurehead. The Nationalist Faction was encouraged by several conservative categories, which comprise CEDA, monarchists consisting of both the opposing Alphornists and the religious conservative Carlists, and the Falange Española de las JONS, a fascist political party. The uprising was accepted by military units in Morocco, Pamplona, Burgos, Zaragoza, Valladolid, Cádiz, Córdoba, Málaga, and Seville. Nevertheless, rebelling units in almost all urban areas did not boost navigations. Those metropolitans remain in the hands of the government, leaving Spain militarily and politically sequestered. The Nationalist forces got munitions, armies, and air support from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, while the Republican side got support from the Soviet Union and Mexico. Other nations, like the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, continued to distinguish the Republican Government but abided by an official policy about non-intervention. Despite this policy, tens of thousands of citizens from non-interventionist territories directly participated in the conflict, predominantly in the pro-Republican multinational brigades. General Francisco Franco was presented as the primary leader of the Nationalist side gradually. The Nationalists upgraded from their strongholds in the south and west, captivating most of Spain’s northern coastline in the year 1937. They besieged Madrid and the location to its south and west. After the myriad of Catalonia was captured in the years 1938 and 1939, and Madrid was cut off from Barcelona, which is the capital of Spain currently, the Republican military position became hopeless. To answer an alleged arising communist dominance of the Republican government and the deteriorating military circumstances, Colonel Segismundo Casado led a military troop against the Republican government, intending to seek harmony with the Nationalists. These harmony overtures, however, were exempted by General Francisco Franco. Following internal conflict between Republican factions in Madrid in the same month, General Francisco Franco entered the capital and pronounced the victory on 1 April 1939. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards escaped to refugee ’camps in southern France. Those who collaborated with the surrendering Republicans who stayed were persecuted by the winning Nationalists. General Francisco Franco established a dictatorship. This war became top-notch for the passion and political isolation it inspired globally and for the many atrocities that happened. Organized purges happened too in a nation captivated by General Francisco Franco’s forces so they could consolidate their upcoming regime. Mass executions also occurred in areas navigated by the Republicans, with the attending of local authorities differing from place to place.
Spanish civil wars, just like any other wars, provide banes to the effect of economy and international relations. What are the banes? The first point to mention about the theme was the economy's effect. Costs for the war for both parties were high. Monetary resources on the Republican side were fully drained from weapon acquisition, while on the Nationalist side, the most intensive losses approached after the conflict, when they had to let Germany, formally named as Deutschland, exploit the nation’ mining resources, so till the start of World War II, they barely had the opportunity to earn money and make any profit. On the other hand, to mention international relations, the political and expressional repercussions of the war transcended the national scale, becoming a precursor to World War II. The war has often been defined by historians as the “prelude to” or the “opening round of” World War II as part of a multinational combat against fascism. Stanley Payne, a historian, recommends that this view is a wrong summary of the geopolitics position of the interwar period, debating that the multinational alliance that was established in December 1941, once the United States entered World War II, was politically much wider than the Spanish Popular Front. The Spanish Civil War, Payne debates, was thus a far more clear-cut revolutionary and counter-revolutionary struggle between the left and right wings, while the Second World War initially had fascists and communists’ abilities on the same side with the combined Nazi-Soviet colonization of Poland. Payne suggests that instead the civil war was the last of the revolutionary crises that appeared from World War I. After the war, Spanish policy leaned heavily towards Germany, Portugal, and Italy, since they had been the best Nationalist supporters and associated with Spain ideologically. Nevertheless, the end of the Civil War, also known as World War, I, and later World War II saw the splitting of the territory from other nations predominantly until the 1950s.
To sum up, wars
are spiteful attributes that bring cons to citizens, the economy, politics, the
entire world, and the future. And, to avoid this old history and story from
occurring, we should do our utmost to reunite, preserve our own countries, and create
an outstanding and desirable future for the world.
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