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- 5. Basic institutional norm of the autonomous communities that contains, at least, the name and territorial delimitation of the community, the name, organization and headquarters of the autonomous institutions themselves, and the powers assumed within the framework established by the Constitution.
- 7. It is a political system based on a very powerful leader, state control, and being extremely proud of the country and race, and in which political opposition is not allowed.
- 10. Spanish electoral coalition created in January 1936 by the main left-wing parties and which won the last elections of the Second Republic before the coup d'état that would trigger the civil war.
- 11. Mostly air intervention force that the German Third Reich sent to help Franco's forces to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Their bombers and fighters were responsible for the destruction of Gernika.
- 12. Spanish military officer active during the first third of the 20th century who led a failed coup in August 1932 and was scheduled to be the commander-in-chief of the rebel side at the start of the 1936 rebellion.
- 13. It was an international organization created by the Treaty of Versailles, in June 1919, to establish the bases for peace and the reorganization of international relations once the First World War ended. It is considered the predecessor of the United Nations (UN).
- 15. A government or a social situation where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else (implies absolute power).
- 16. Military groups or forces composed only of citizens who have no prior training and who do not receive a salary in exchange for this task. In the Spanish Civil War its components, militiamen and militiamen, came from the unions and fought in defense of the Republic.
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- 1. Military units composed of foreign volunteers (about 35,000) from more than fifty countries that participated in the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) together with the Republican Army.
- 2. Spanish political party of fascist ideology led by José Antonio Primo de Rivera and founded in 1933 with the support of reactionary forces to the Republic and right-wing parties that use it as a shock force against left-wing parties.
- 3. A war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies.
- 4. Spanish physician and politician, president of the Government during the Second Republic from 1937 to 1939.
- 6. Organization created in 1936 at the proposal of France and supported by the United Kingdom with the objective of verifying the degree of compliance with the Non-Intervention Pact, which sought to avoid foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War and the internationalization of the conflict at a time of maximum tension between democracies and dictatorships in Europe.
- 8. The Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas was a Spanish coalition of Catholic and right-wing parties presented as the alternative to the Government and the republican-socialist coalitions during the Second Republic.
- 9. Basque population that houses the sacred oak under which the Hispanic monarchs since Isabel la Católica swore allegiance to the Basque charters. 85% of the population was destroyed in a German bombing during the Civil War to frighten the Basques and precipitate their surrender.
- 14. Spanish military officer and dictator, member of the military leadership that staged the 1936 coup against the democratic government of the Second Republic, leading to the Spanish Civil War.