Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War

Main Events and Issues
Background to War	Overview of Civil War
Spanish Civil War Chronology	Popular Front Government
Cortes (Parliament)	1936 Elections
Non-Intervention Agreement	Second Republic
May Riots	Civil War Casualties

Military Organizations
Abraham Lincoln Battalion	Fifth Regiment
Anarchist Brigades	George Washington Battalion
Army of Africa	International Brigades
Assault Guard	Iron Column
Black Shirts	Italian Corps
Blueshirts	Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion
British Battalion	Mickiewicz Battalion
Civil Guard	Mixed Brigades
Condor Legion	Nationalist Army
Connolly Column	Republican Army
Dajakovich Battalion	Solidarios
Dimitrov Battalion	Thaelmann Battalion

Political Organizations
CNT Union	Falange Española
Anarchists	Federación Anarquista Ibérica
Carlists	Partit Catala Proletari
PSUC	Radical Party
CEDA	Republican Union Party
Comintern	Socialist Party (PSOE)
Communist Party (PCE)	UGT Union
Esquerra Party	Worker's Party (POUM)

Important Battles and Strategic Positions
Aragón	Guernica
Badajoz	Jarama
Barcelona	Madrid
Belchite	Málaga
Brunete	Teruel
Ebro	Valencia

Biographies: Foreign Participants & Observers
William Aalto	Oliver Law
Mary Valentine Ackland	Laurie Lee
Bill Alexander	Ethel MacDonald
John Amery	Leah Manning
Hans Amlie	André Malraux
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko	David Marshall
Duchess of Atholl	André Marty
Clement Attlee	Marion Merriman
W. H. Auden	Robert Merriman
Bill Bailey	Robert Minor
Hans Beimler	Jessica Mitford
Alvah Bessie	Werner Moelders
Franz Borkenau	Herbert Morrison
Felicia Browne	Annie Murray
Roy Campbell	Tom Murray
Christopher Caudwell	Steve Nelson
Claude Cockburn	Peadar O'Donnell
Cyril Connolly	Eoin O'Duffy
Fred Copeman	Alexander Orlov
John Cornford	George Orwell
Len Crome	Dorothy Parker
Nancy Cunard	Penny Phelps
Joe Dallet	Kim Philby
Georgi Dimitrov	Mildred Rackley
David Doran	Archibald Ramsay
Jacques Doriot	Eleanor Rathbone
Tom Driberg	Gustav Regler
Ilya Ehrenburg	Ludwig Renn
Florence Farmborough	Wolfram von Richthofen
Adolf Galland	Paul Robeson
William Gallacher	Edwin Rolfe
Joe Garber	Esmond Romilly
John Gates	Thora Silverthorne
Martha Gellhorn	Alfred Sherman
Emma Goldman	Emanuel Shinwell
Walter Grant	Stephen Spender
Nan Green	Hugo Sperrle
John Dos Passos	George Steer
Ralph Fox	George Strauss
Eslanda Goode	Josip Tito
Charlotte Haldane	Sybil Thorndyke
John Haldane	Lillian Urmston
Ernest Hemingway	Sylvia Townsend Warner
Harry Haywood	Walther Warlimont
Edward Heath	Rebecca West
Langston Hughes	Paul White
Jack Jones	Sam Wild
Salaria Kea	Ellen Wilkinson
Lou Kenton	Elizabeth Wilkinson
Emilo Kléber	Tom Wintringham
Edward Knoblaugh	Milton Wolff
Arthur Koestler	Konni Zilliacus

International Leaders and the Civil War
Clement Attlee	Adolf Hitler
Stanley Baldwin	Maxim Litvinov
Aneurin Bevan	Benito Mussolini
Leon Blum	Constantin von Neurath
Neville Chamberlain	Paul Reynaud
Galaezzo Ciano	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Edouard Daladier	Antonio Salazar
Jacques Duclos	Maurice Thorez
Anthony Eden	Palmiro Togliatti
Hermann Goering	Leon Trotsky
Lord Halifax	Joseph Stalin
Individual Countries and the Spanish Civil War
Canada	Italy
Germany	Portugal
Britain	Soviet Union
France	Sweden
Ireland	United States

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