NOUN
- civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government; during the war Spain became a battleground for fascists and socialists from all countries; 1936-1939
How To Use Spanish Civil War In A Sentence
- The Spanish civil war ushered in a new era in which the civilian population was enmeshed in the conflict.
- They were under the general orders of Mola and Franco, the leaders of the military insurrection that had sparked the Spanish Civil War.
- As the film progresses, the war outside becomes more important to the main plot, which makes a comment about the Spanish Civil War in more specific terms.
- He also participated in the Spanish Civil War as a military physician.
- He also participated in the Spanish Civil War as a military physician.
- It's a lush, romantic epic about lovers in a fatal emotional triangle, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
- As a natural contrarian, Orwell's distrust of the Left's hero worship of dictators like Stalin deepened after his personal experience in the Spanish Civil War where he saw Communism betray his view of the revolution. Orwell and Patriotism
- There were deserters and rejects from the American army, one or two curious fragments of human flotsam from the Spanish Civil War, and the first American negro Raymond had known, a huge, clever man, rumoured to be a lawyer from West Virginia. Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy
- The policies of the “falanga” the Spanish fascist party which Franco technically lead failed miserably in the years immediately following the end of the Spanish Civil War. Applause for Spain
- He is old enough to have felt the disillusion of lost causes such as the Spanish Civil War and the left's brief flirtation with Communism.
