The Spanish Civil War was a national revolutionary war launched by the Spanish people in the 1930s to fight against reactionary forces at home and abroad, defend revolutionary achievements and defend national independence.

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1898 The Spanish-American War, the first imperialist war to repartition colonial territory, ended in a fiasco in Spain. Since then, Spain has lagged far behind other powerful countries in economy, politics and military affairs. 1929 The capitalist world economic crisis hit backward Spain hard, causing inflation, chaotic industrial and agricultural production order, people's dissatisfaction, and various domestic contradictions rapidly intensified. 193 1 In April, Spain broke out the bourgeois-democratic revolution, overthrew the monarchy and established a republic. However, the bourgeois-democratic revolution has not really solved the fundamental problems of Spanish society, class contradictions and ethnic contradictions are still extremely acute, and the social foundation of the Republic is very weak. From 65438 to 0935, the political situation in Europe changed and the threat of war gradually approached. In the face of increasingly rampant fascism, * * * Production International put forward the call of establishing the People's Front to unite the proletariat and all other progressive forces to fight against fascist forces. Spain's * * * Production Party tried to form the People's Front in conjunction with Spain's left-wing parties, and won the parliamentary election held in February 1935 to form a new * * * and government. With the support of the people, the new government has implemented a series of progressive social reforms. These initial social reforms aroused the extreme hatred of reactionary forces at home and abroad, and quickly intensified the original class contradictions and social contradictions. Almost all the right-wing parties and reactionary officers who opposed * * * and * * are actively seeking the help and support of Hitler and Mussolini to plan a rebellion to subvert * * * and the government.

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Spain's failure was caused by a series of unfavorable internal and external factors. The most important external factors are the armed intervention of Germany and Italy and the so-called "non-interference" policy of Britain and France. Among the internal factors, the Spanish production party has never mastered the leadership of the People's Front, which is the most important one. This is an important lesson. This war curbed the aggression of German and Italian fascists against other countries and provided valuable experience and lessons for the anti-fascist struggle of people of all countries. Its significance goes far beyond Spain itself, becoming an important event for democratic forces to oppose fascist aggression on the eve of World War II and an important part of the international anti-fascist struggle in the 1930s.