Civil War Impacts - ATROCITIES BY BOTH SIDES

Question 1

Which side committed atrocities
+ Who was impacted?

Answer 1

both nationalists + republicans committed atrocities against citizens
+
mostly those caught in crossfire - not combatants = e.g. innocent farm workers at guernica

Question 2

Who did the Republicans target?

Answer 2

republicans targeted middle-class nationalist supporters + religious figures + buildings

Question 3

Who did the Nationalists target?

Answer 3

nationalists targeted working-class + TU activists = rounded up + imprisoned/ executed

Question 4

What did citizens have to do as a result?

Answer 4

many citizens lived in constant fear

e.g. in areas won by nationalists - former republicans/ trade unionists sometimes joined Falange to show loyalty to new regime/avoid execution

Question 5

Who was persecuted by the Republicans?
+ Impact?

Answer 5

persecution of priests by the republicans
+
= Vatican sided w the nationalists
= Br refused to support republicans

Question 6

How many deaths overall as a result of the civil war?

Answer 6

500,000 - 1 million deaths overall

incl. from starvation/disease as a result of the war