The SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Learning Objective: Understand the significance of the Spanish Civil War on the origins of WWII

Franco vs Azana

Expert groupsGroups 1&2: What happened?Group 3: What were the causes?Group 4: Who was involved?Group 5: What did people think?

YOU HAVE 20 MINUTES

Consequences of the Spanish Civil War

Hitler and Mussolini drew closer together, leading to theRome-Berlin Axis of 1936

Germany gained valuable battle practice and confidence

Italy and Germany build their sphere of influence in Europeby helping a Fascist to power

Britain and France on the other hand were shown to be weak,unreliable and still more concerned with communism