Spanish Civil War
- the conflict (1936-9) between Nationalist forces (including monarchists and members of the Falange Party) and Republicans (including socialists and Communists and Catalan and Basque separatists) in Spain西班牙内战（1936-1939, 国民军［包括君主制主义者和倾向法西斯主义的长枪党］与共和军［包括社会主义者、共产主义者和加泰罗尼亚及巴斯克分离主义者］之间发生的武装冲突）。
It began with a military uprising against the leftist, Republican Popular Front government in July 1936. In bitter fighting the Nationalists, led by General Franco, gradually gained control of the countryside but failed to capture the capital, Madrid. After periods of prolonged stalemate, Franco finally succeeded in capturing Barcelona and Madrid in early 1939. He established a Fascist dictatorship that lasted until his death in 1975.