The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

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