The Spanish Civil War was a war that enfronted the government of the Second Spanish Republic, which had the support of left politic groups, against the army and right-wing politic groups. It was an historic conflict of the twentieth century where Spain suffered the military sublevation and subsequent civil war that represented the culmination of all the contradictions of social, political and ideological society that had been generated in the course of previous decades.

 The war began with a military attack on 17 July 1936 at the barracks in Melilla, the next day spread in all the state. President Santiago Casares was replaced by Jose Giral, who ordered the distribution of weapons among the civilian population, faciliting the defeat of the rebels in the main industrial centers, Madrid and the Mediterranean cities, but the failure of the revolt led to a long and bloody war.

The war ended with Franco's victory on 1 of April 1939 and becoming into the dictatorship of the General.

The dictatorship was long until the dead of the dictator Franco, the year 20 November of 1975.