Popular Front and The Civil War
It is believed that one main reason for the civil war, was the military uprising in 1936.. The Uprising in the Spanish civil war was led by Francisco Franco, backed and supported by other countries such as Italy and Germany. The officers in major cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia, prevented the military revolt. Had these cities made the change from civilian to military, the revolt might have gone in the rebels favor.
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Famous quotes containing the words civil war, popular, front, civil and/or war:
“They have been waiting for us in a foetor
Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
Of the expropriated mycologist.”
—Derek Mahon (b. 1941)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
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—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 10 (1962)
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—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)