1.
Introduction
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General opening sentence about the outcome of
the war
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Explain the facts of the outcome
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Who?
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What?
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Where?
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When?
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Why?
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Thesis
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The Spanish Civil War had both domestic and
international effects, ranging in the areas of economic, political, and human
costs.
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Mention some international stuff too
Part 1: Domestic
2.
Human costs
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Topic sentence: the massive targeting of
civilians and heavy fighting nature of the war left Spain with a significantly
lower population that was split in two.
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The background (from the nature of the Spanish
civil war)
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The results
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100,000 republicans killed
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70,000 nationalists killed
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Effects of nationalist win and the inhumane
fighting
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The ‘White Terror’
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40,000 to 200,000 killed
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Republicans and sympathizers were held in
concentration camps
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Republican children were placed with
nationalists families or orphanages
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Concluding sentence:
3.
Economic costs
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Topic sentence: the war had immense effects on
the Spanish economy that was to struggle for years to come under the effects of
the destructive war.
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The facts:
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28 percent lower income per capita in 1939
compared to 1935
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10-15% of Spanish wealth lost
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Spain was in debt
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Inflation raged
4.
Political effects:
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The victory of nationalists enabled Franco to
run the country as the fascist state that he had envisioned prior to the war.
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The facts:
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Preston: ‘as if it were a country occupied by a
victorious foreign army.’
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Republican sympathizers fled the country
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Many teachers, lawyers, researchers, doctors,
and celebrities
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Law of Political Responsibility (1939) made the
punishment of Republicans legal – even the death penalty
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The CNT and UGT were destroyed
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The church gained significant power (Frances
Lannon, historian)
Part 2: International
1.
International effects
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Topic sentence: the heavy foreign involvement in
the Spanish Civil War spread the effects its end to nearly all participating
parties.
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USSR
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Lost intellectual sympathy in the West
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Pushed USSR away from an alliance with the
Western powers
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The NIC had convinced Stalin of the British and
French inability to face Hitler
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Stalin turned to Germany for alliance instead
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Germany and Italy
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Hitler gained military lessons in the war
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Importance of air power
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Effectiveness of Blitzkrieg
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The war brought Germany and Italy closer
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Germany was principal country ‘defending the
world from communism’
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Britain and France
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Appeasement had yet again failed
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The USA
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Strengthened the isolationistic sentiment
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Spain was not on the list for Marshall Aid after
WWII
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Cold War enabled Spain to get on good terms with
the US due to anti-communist beliefs.
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Granted Spain membership in the UN and became an
ally of the US
