The Spanish Civil War (In Our Time)
1936 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish Civil War which was a defining war of the twentieth century. It was a brutal conflict that polarised Spain, pitting the Left against the Right, the anti-clericals against the Church, the unions against the landed classes and the Republicans against the Monarchists. It was a bloody war which saw, in the space of jus
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Around 1936
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- The Holocaust (1941)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)