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Start of the Civil War
On the evening of July 17th rebel soldiers in the spanish protectorate of Morocco seized the control of their garrisons in Ceuta, Melilla and Tetuán. This event made the troops mobilise in all the country -
Uprisings in Madrid and Barcelona
General Francisco Franco declares a state of war and arrives in Morocco to take control of the troops. The cities controlled by the rebels are: Cadíz,Cordoba and Sevilla in the south and Pamplona, Burgos and Valladolid in the north while the uprisings are defeated in Barcelona and Madrid. -
Nacionalists movements and victories
Hitler and Mussolini help Franco to airlift his troops to mainland. Meanwhile General Mola commands the army from the noth and General Franco fom the south. THe francoist troops take Badajoz and the Tajo Valley while General Mola takes Guipuzkoa and closes the French borders to the republicans -
The take of the Alcazár
Franco turn his army south to Toledo where the nationalist soldiers are resisting the Republican´s siege in the Alcazár. Franco´s troops win a simbolic victory -
The battle of Madrid
Nationalist troops reach the capital. The goverment leaves Madrid and flees to Valencia. International aids reach the city and the republicants resist, but the Nationalist besiege Madrid for much of the war -
The northern front
The Gernika bombings helped the Nationalist to gain a decisive victory in Bizcaia. In spite of the Republican offensve in Aragón THe Nationalist take the important industral zones in the north: Asturias and Cantabria -
The battle of Teruel
This is one of the worst battles in the Civil War. Nationalist gain an strategic victory that allows them to advance to the Mediterranean. The republican zone is cut in two and Cataluña is isolated -
The battle of the Ebro
The republican goverment launches an all-out campaign to reconect their terrritory. It fails and Frano deploys mass forces to invade Cataluña, HIs troops enter Barcelona and only Madrid, Valencia and a few other strongholds remain for the Republican forces. -
Civil war within the Civil war
A plot within the Republican Army causes the goverment in Valencia to fall. There is a council formed to negotiate peace with Franco but he only accepts an unconditional surrender. Juan Negrín the president of the goverment flees to France -
The end of the War
The nationalists star a general offensive that in 28th of march occupies Madrid and culminates in the 31th of march in wich the controll all the Spanish territories and the Republicans surrender
