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Summary What events led to the creation of alliances amongst the aggressors?
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Cause of conflict/involvement of International responseDate Details Consequences
aggressors and why and why
1936-39 - • Right-wing nationalists rebelled • Franco appealed to the • Western democracies • Republicans turned to the
Spanish against the Republican, left-wing German and Italian gov. for committed themselves to USSR for help but Stalin was
Civil War government the Popular Front help, getting his troops from non-intervention unwilling to commit himself as
• Intervention of Germany and Italy their Morocco base to • Britain set up the Non- fully as Hitler and Mussolini
was to prove deceive in securing Spanish mainland Intervention Committee did- difficult for USSR to
victory of Nationalist leader, • Mussolini and Hitler keen to • 24 countries joined the move supplies to Spain
General Franco help by sending transport NIC, including Germany • Did not want to leave
• Got involved bc: same ideologies planes and Italy who directly Russia’s western border open
at the nationalists as they pledge to • Germany provided 100 contradicted it to German aggression
resist communism, civil war was a fighter aircraft and 12,000 • UK, France and US • Nationalists had an
good testing ground for new soldiers stayed broadly loyal to advantage despite
weapons, equipment and • German and Italian planes the NIC and forbade Republican gov. having
personnel, opportunity to forge (Condor Legion and the citizens from fighting in support of Western
alliances, especially the Luftwaffe Aviazone Legionaria) were a the war democracies
• Hitler hoped to lure Italy away from huge advantage • Tens of thousands of left-
the Stresa Front • Heavy bombing was used wing citizens ignored this
• The town of Guernica was and joined, fighting for
destroyed in April 1937 the Republicans
killing between 200-200
civilians
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