How the Nationalists Won the Spanish Civil War (ft. History w/Hilbert) | Animated History

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Sources:
Preston, Paul. 2007. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge. W. W. Norton & Company.

Music:
Dawn without End by Zach Heyde

Antonio Salieri, Twenty six variations on La Folia de Spagna
London Mozart Players
Matthias Bamert, as conductor

[shaww]

The Hoi4 Scoreboard:
Franco - 25 481
Jose Diaz - 2

[wizar]

Because when the volunteers came, the soviet union still had -45% organization to their units from _officers purged_

[edwardaugustus]

Communist Russia: Republicans you have to pay for our weapons.
Fascist Italy: Nationalists we got you bro here have some guns.

[peterfeng]

Spain: exists
This enraged Spain, who punished Spain severely.

[PrehistoricLEGO]

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep, I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion” -Alexander the Great to his men

[SwfanredLotr]

A pity that you didn't mention more of the important detail that Franco was able to join both the Falangists and the Carlists into one party for a common cause and under his leadership by 1937.

[vegabtw]

My grandfather was born in 1938 in Madrid, in the middle of the siege, I always tell him that was quite a bad timing

[ryantoth]

Portugal just chilling there like "man that's some wild stuff going on over there, let's break out the popcorn"

[Atwasoa]

Spain: ...
Spain: I am gonna end this man's whole career

[vidk.]

Spanish Civil war❌
WW2 Early Beta Version✔

[Kardia_of_Rhodes]

Spanish Republican Officer: These guns, tanks, and planes are great and all, but what we really need is food!
*Stalin sweats nervously*

[benikahn]

So nationalist propaganda is pretty much : " imagine not having bread, this post was made by the franco gang."

[SentryWill]

The Nationalists won because Japan sent volunteers instead of doing the Marco Polo Bridge Incident focus.

[tiarnacais]

Fun fact a small brigade of Irish known as O'duffy's brigade fought for national spain but franco didnt want them as he already good troops as mentioned. The reason why they joined is as mentioned spain was very catholic and o'duffy was anti communist

[mrwri]

1. Competent leadership
2. Competent training
3. Competent organization
4. No Communist purges
5. Foriegn aid

[InspectHistory]

Paradox should sponsored this content, because it make me (or you too), want to play HOI4 again

[clementkong]

@5:00 Franco didn’t lead the coup (at least initially). He only inherited that position. It was initially led by José Sanjurjo & later Emilio Mola but both died in a plane crash.

[aze]

I feel that you left out the sheer amount of politicking Franco engaged in to ensure that the Nationalists were unified.

[redacted]

Nationalists: Ok guys, we gotta stick together.
Republicans: Unity is a crucial par-
Anarchists: We don't do that here.

[JuanMatteoReal]

Spanish Civil War: The war that usually happens on HOI4 vanilla, Kaiserreich and Fuhrerreich.

Spain: Am I a joke to the world?