HL Topic 14 Interwar Years : CS 3 - Spain and Spanish Civil War (1918-1939)

Question 1

Origins of Spanish Civil War

Answer 1

Long, short and immediate causes
Primo de Rivera Regime (1923-1930)
Polarization and political parties under the Second Republic (1931-1936)
Azaña and GIl Robles 1931-1936

Question 2

Primo de Rivera Regime (1923-1930)

Answer 2

Undermining of Democratic Institutions (Coup)
Economic Policies and Crises
Social Unrest and Inequality
Political Extremism

Question 3

Polarization and political parties under the Second Republic (1931-1936)

Answer 3

Emergence of the Second Republic
Ideological Divides
CEDA
The Clergy
Bienio NEgro
Agrarian Reform and Catalan Statute Changes in Government
Popular Front

Question 4

Azaña and Gil Robles 1931-1936

Answer 4

Azaña:
Divisive, anticlerical
Responsible for the social reforms that alienated the right
Failed to pacify radical left
Responsible for Casas Viejas
Unpopular in both left and right

Gil Robles (Bienio Negro):
Leader of the CEDA
Emphasized traditional and catholic values
More Authoritarian approach
Polarizing

Question 5

Long-Term Causes

Answer 5

Weakness of the government
The role of the Establishment (Church, army, and government)
Economic Factors (agriculture, lack of industrialization, poverty)
Regions and Separatism
Emergence of opposition
Fall of Monarchy

Question 6

Short-Term and Immediate Causes

Answer 6

Left Republic 31-33
The Right Republic (Bienio Negro) 33-36
Popular Front 36
Failed Coup 36

Question 7

Practices/Outcomes of the Spanish Civil War

Answer 7

Foreign Involvement
Economic Resources
Leadership/Unity
Nationalist Strengths

Question 8

Reasons for Political Polarization

Answer 8

Long-Term Political Factors
Short-Term Political Factors
Economic Factors

Question 9

Polarization - Long-Term Political Factors

Answer 9

Establishment’s Opposition to modernity
Army
Church
Emergence of leftist and revolutionary groups
Separatism
Political Instability

Question 10

Short-Term Political Factors

Answer 10

Second Republic
Clergy’s Political Influence
Anarchist and Socialist Unrest
CEDA
Falange
Asturias Uprising
Popular Front
Unrest and Land Seizures
Murder of Jose Castillo and Jese Sotelo

Question 11

Economic Factors

Answer 11

Class divisions
Economic boom post WW1
Widespread Strikes
Military and Junteros Unrest
Anarcho-Syndicalism
Rural wealth gap and Violence
Industrial unrest
Andalucian Agricultural Crisis
Globa Economic Crisis