Read The battle for Spain: the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Online
Authors: Antony Beevor
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carabineros
Cárdenas, Juan
Cárdenas, President Lázaro
Cardozo, Harold
Carlists (
requetés
), nineteenth-century revolts, begin military training, involvement in
coup ďétat
, barbarity, political killings, treatment of prisoners of war, politics, role in civil war, authoritarian values, and Franco’s rise to power, in attack on Madrid, military value and populist base, in Jarama offensive, fanatical chaplains, Navarrese brigades in nationalist power struggle,
tercio
of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat, at battle of Teruel, in Aragón offensive, under Franco, in battle of Catalonia, and Franco regime, religious convictions
Carls, Admiral Rolf
Carrasco Amilibia, Colonel León
Carrillo, Santiago
Carrillo, Wenceslao
Cartagena, prison riots, republican naval base, gold reserves shipped from, bombed, republican fleet leaves
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Casablanca
Casado López, Lieutenant-Colonel César
Casado López, Lieutenant-Colonel Segismundo, and battle of Brunete, denied knowledge of airfields, opposition to Negrín government, promoted, negotiations leaves Spain
Casares Quiroga, Santiago resigns as prime minister
Casares, Maria
casas del pueblo
Casas Viejas
Cascajo Ruiz, Colonel Ciriaco
Caspe
Castejón, Major Antonio and attack on Madrid
Castellón de la Plana
Castilblanco
Castilla del Pino, Professor Carlos
Castillo de Olite
(ship)
Castillo Sería, Lieutenant José
Castor Ibáñez, Lieutenant-Commander
Castro, Enrique
Castro, Fidel
Castro Delgado, Enrique
Castro Veiga, José
Catalonia, agriculture, industry and economy, anarchism, nationalism, autonomy and statute, Generalitat, general strike, clergy in, Central Committee of, Anti-Fascist Militias, political killings, self-government, militia system, political groupings, independent army established, relations with republican government, separatism, and republican power struggle, judicial system, press, divided from rest of Spain, defeatism, integrated into Spanish state, suspected French designs on, republicans rearm, battle for and fall, guerrilla operations
Catholic Church, under, Second Republic, and education, identified with Spain, finances, Falange and, target for republicans, and political killings, nationalists and, and Franco’s rise to power, leaders, backing for Franco, and bombing of Guernica, social doctrine, under Franco, censorship, Carlists and
Catholicism
Caudé, wells of
Caudwell, Christopher
Cayatte, André
Cazorla, José
CEDA, (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas
censorship
Centaño, Lieutenant-Colonel José
Cerro de los Angeles
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Cervera
Ceuta
Chalmers-Mitchell, Sir Peter
Chamberlain, Lady
Chamberlain, Neville, friendliness towards Franco, as prime minister, misleads Commons
Chapaprieta, Joaquin
Chatfield, Admiral Lord
Chautemps, Camille
Checa, Pedro
checas
Chetwode, Sir Philip
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chicago Tribune
Chile
Chilton, Sir Henry
China
Chinese volunteers
Churchill, Winston
Churruca
(destroyer)
Ciano, Count Galeazzo, notes British friendliness to Mussolini, delight in bombing raids, signs pact with, Britain, anger with nationalists, and Negrín’s negotiations, fears European war, and fall of, Catalonia, proclaims fascist victory
Cicognani, Cardinal Gaetano
Ciempozuelos
Císcar
(republican destroyer)
Cisneros, Cardinal Ximénez
Ciudad de Barcelona
(ship)
Ciudad Real province of
Ciutat, Major Francisco
Civil Guard, (Guardia Civil, Sanjurjo’s power base, brutality, Popular Front and, role in
coup ďétat
, role in civil war, barracks, purged, in Madrid, disbanded in Basque country, intervene in Salamanca, come out of hiding, anti-guerrilla operations
Claridad
(socialist newspaper)
Claudel, Paul
CNT, (Confederación Nacional de Trabajo), membership, strikes, under Second Republic, and defence of Republic, increased strength, Barcelona conference, in Catalonia, women and, flag, and socialized industries, and militias, and Largo, Caballero government, foreign volunteers and, and defence of Madrid, arrest government ministers, in Málaga, war fund, at battle of Guadalajara, in Basque Country, and Stalin’s purges, and republican power struggle, and ‘events of May’, collectives destroyed, rift between leadership and membership, defence of El Mazuco pass, in Aragón, demonstrate against defeatism, concessions to government, leaders meet in Paris, joins anti-fascist front
CNT-FAI
Codó
Codovilla, Vittorio
Cold War
collectives, destroyed in Aragón
Collioure
Comintern, agents and advisers, and Largo Caballero government, role in Spanish Civil War, and formation of International Brigades, ambitions for republican Spain, and republican power struggle
Comité des Forges
commissars
Communist Youth (Juventud Socialista Unificada)
Comorera, Joan, and ‘events of May’
Companys, Lluís, proclaims Catalan state, political realism, complaints against government, and ‘events of May’, sidelined, bids farewell to International Brigades, and fall of Catalonia, in France, executed
Condés, Captain Fernando
Condor Legion, trains militia, in Málaga campaign, receives Messerschmitt and Jarama offensive, in Basque campaign, develops tactics, and Brunete offensive, on northern front, upgrades aircraft, in Gudalajara offensive and battle of Teruel, Gruppe Droehne, reinforced, attacks Italians, withdrawn from fighting, and battle of Ebro, guarantees Franco victory, hands over to Spanish pilots, and fall of Catalonia, tracks republican fleet, role in republican collapse, participates in victory parade
Confederation Générale du Travail
Conservative Party
Contreras, Carlos
Cooper, Alfred Duff, (later Viscount Norwich)
Čopič?, General Vladimir
Coppi, General Giovanni
Corbera ďEbre
Cordillera Cantábrica
Córdoba, protests, province of, political killings, front
Cordon, Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Antonio
Cornford, John
Corpe di Truppe Volontarie, (see CTV)
Cortada, Roldán
Cortés, Captain
Corunna
Corunna road battles
Cot, Pierre
Covadonga, as codeword
Cowan, Denis
Cowles, Virginia
Cristóbal, Major
Croix de Feu
Cruz Salido, Francisco
CTV (Corpe di Truppe Volontarie), on Guadalajara front, at Teruel, in Aragón offensive, in advance on Valencia
Cuatro Caminos
Cuenca, SIM prison
Cuenca, Victoriano
Cuerpo Legionario Italiano, (see also CTV)
Cuesta de la Reina
Cuesta Monereo, José
Cunard, Nancy
currency, hard, under Franco,
see also
gold reserves
Curto, Inocencio
Czechoslovakia
Dachau (concentration camp)
Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph
Daladier, Édouard
Dato
(gunboat)
Dato e Iradier, Eduardo
Dávila, General Fidel, conquest of northern front, and battle of Teruel, and battle of Catalonia, occupies Barcelona
Dávila, Sancho
Dawson, Geoffrey (
Times
editor)
Day-Lewis, Cecil
de Gaulle, Charles
de Jouvenal, Bernard
DEDIDE (Departamento Especial de Información del Estado)
del Rio, Felipe
Delaprée, Louis
Delasalle, Major Gaston
Delbos, Yvon
Delgado Serrano, Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Francisco
Delmer, Sefton
desertion
Deterding, Henry
Deutschland
(German warship)
Diario Oficial
Díaz, Francisca
Díaz Alor, José
Díaz Baza, Ángel
Díaz Criado, Colonel Manuel
Díaz Sandino, Colonelb Felipe
Díaz Tendero, Captain Eleuterio
Dimitrov, Georgi
Domingo, Marcelino
Dos Passos, John
Doussinague, José María
Doval Bravo, Major Lisardo
Dronne, Captain Raymond
Duchesne, Captain
Duclos, Jacques
Dulles, John Foster
Durán, Gustavo
Durango
Durruti, Buenaventura, orders attack on Atarazanas barracks, and defence of Madrid, death and funeral, with prisoner
Dzigan, Yefim
Ebro, River, battle of, propaganda about, losses at, air tactics, mistakes at
economy, Catalan, First World War boom, and shipment of gold reserves, crisis in republican zone, under Franco,
see also
agriculture; currency; gold reserves; industry; unemployment
Eden, Anthony, (later Earl of Avon), and Chamberlain
education,
see also
universities
Ehrenburg, Ilya
Eibar
Eisenstein, Sergei
Eitingon, Naum
El Campesino, (Valentín González), and Brunete offensive, and Aragón offensive, and battle of Teruel
El Correo Catalán
El Debate
El Escorial
El Ferrol
El Mazuco pass
El Muletón
El Noticiero Universal
El Pardo
El Pobo
El Socialista
El Vértice Castellar
Elda
Elorrio
Eluard, Paul
emigration
Eroles, Dionisio
Escandón
Escobar, Colonel (later General)
Escofet, Frederic
Escudo pass
España
(nationalist battleship)
Españ air squadron
Espinosa de los Monteros, General Eugenio
Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya
Estat Català
Estepona
Estrada, Manuel
estraperlo
gambling scandal
Estremadura, agriculture,
latifundia
, guerrilla operations, offensives, republican salient cut off
ETA, (Euskadi ta Askatasuna)
Etchebehere, Mika
Eurobank
Euzkadi,
see
Basque country