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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“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
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—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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