Spanish Republic (Second Republic), declared, Constitution, revolt against, fifth anniversary parade, fails to resist military rising, military strength, foreign relations, collapse, zone of control, unity of, international support, leadership, international reputation, power struggle within, infected with paranoia, and ‘controlled democracy’, seeks compromise, communist power ends
Spanish–American War
Spender, Stephen
Spengler, Oswald
Sperrle, General Hugo
Stalin, Joseph, regime, portrait, decision to intervene in Spain, foreign policy, conspiracy complex, criticisms published, instructs Largo Caballero, plans for republican Spain, purges, and republican power struggle, and Negrín’s administration, pact with Hitler
Stalingrad, battle of, commanders, Richthofen and, compared with Teruel, tactics
Standard Oil
Stashevsky, Artur
Steer, George
Steinbeck, John
‘Stepánov’,
Stevenson, R. C. S.
Straits of Gibraltar
strikes, in response to military rising, suppressed under Franco
submarines, ‘Legionary’
Swedish volunteers
Switzerland
Tagüeñ Lacorte, Manuel, and battle of Ebro, leaves Spain
Tagus, River
Talavera de la Reina
Tangier
tanks: in action in Madrid, development of, in battle of Jarama, in battle of Guadalajara, in battle of Belchite, in battle of Teruel, Spanish, tactics, destroyed at Fuentes de Ebro, in action at Belchite, in action at Teruel
Tank types
BT-5s
Fiat Ansaldos
Panzer Mark Is
T-26s
Tiger
Tapsell, Walter
Tarradellas, Joan Josep
Tarragona
Tarrancón
Tella, Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Heli Rolando de
Tenerife
Terra Alta
Teruel, battle of, compared with Stalingrad, losses at
Teruel, Bishop of
Tetuán
Texas Oil Company
Thomas, Hugh
Thorez, Maurice
Tiflis
Tkachev, Major (‘Palafox’)
Togliatti, Palmiro (‘Ercole’ or ‘Alfredo’)
Toledo, province of, relief of the Alcázar, political killings, guerrilla bands, Angel of the Alcázar
Toledo, Archbishop of
Toller, Ernst
Tomás, Belarmino
Torija
Torrejón
Torrejón de la Calzada
Torrejón de Velasco
Tortosa
Toulouse
Traven, B.
Tremp
Trescastro, Juan Luis
Trijueque
Trillas, Desiderio
Triolet, Elsa
Trotsky, Leon and POUM, in exile, assassination of, heads Petrograd Soviet, sabotage operations
Tukhachevsky, Marshal Mikhail
Tunisia
UGT, (Unión General de Trabajadores), membership, under Second Republic, and defence of Republic increased strength, in Catalonia, and education, and socialized industries, and militias, and Largo Caballero government, and defence of Madrid, in Basque country, and republican power struggle, concessions to government
UHP (Unión de Hermanos Proletarios)
Ulíbarri, General Gámir
UME, (Unión Militar Espanola)
UMRA, (Unión Militar Republicana Antifascista)
Unamuno, Miguel de, denounces nationalists, death
Unión Socialista
Unión de Derecha y Agrarios
Unión Nacional Española
Unión Patriótica
Unión Republicana
United Nations
United Socialist Youth, see Juventud Socialista Unificada
United States of America, isolationism, role in Spanish Civil War, and International Brigades, fear of communism, perceptions of Spanish Civil War, supplies trucks, and non-intervention policy, sales of Spanish silver, establishes relations with Franco, enters Second World War
universities
University of Alcalá de Henares
University of Salamanca
Uribarri Barrutell, Colonel Manuel
Uribe, Vicente
USSR,
Utrecht, Treaty of
Vaciamadrid
Val, Eduardo
Valdeiglesias, Marquess de
Valdemoro
Valencia, agriculture, prison riots, military rising, citrus fruit exports, clergy in, political killings, collectivization, political groupings, republican government in, Prado evacuated to, bombing of, International Writers’ Congress for the Defence of Culture, newspapers, prisons, bombing of, nationalist advance on, coup leaders meet
Valencia, Archbishop of
Valladolid
Valle de Arán
Vallecas
Vallejo, Eugenio
Vallejo Nágera, Major Antonio
Vallellano, Count and Countess de
Valls
Vanni, Ettore
Varela Iglesias, Colonel (later General) José, role in military rising, and attack on Madrid, and Jarama offensive, and Guadarrama offensive, and Brunete offensive, and Guadalajara offensive, and advance on Valencia, and Franco regime
Vatican, backs Franco, appoints papal nuncio, appeals for truce
Vázquez, Mariano
Vega, Etelvino
Veltjens, Josef
Vendrell
Venezuela
Verardini, Antonio
Versailles, Treaty of
Viana, Marquess de
Vic, Bishop of
Vidal y Barraquer, Cardinal, (Archbishop of Tarragona)
Vidal-Quadras, Captain
Vierna, Admiral Manuel
Vigo
Vigón, Colonel (later General), and battle of Teruel, planning capability, and battle of Catalonia, meets Hitler, warns Franco about Serrano Súñer
Vila, Professor Salvador
Vila Capdevila, Ramón (‘Caraquemada’)
Villalba, Colonel José
Villalba dels Arcs
Villanueva de la Cañda
Villanueva de la Serena
Villanueva del Pardillo
Villareal
Vinaroz
Vitoria
Vitoria, Bishop of
Vittorio, Giuseppe di (‘Nicoletti’)
Vittorio Emanuele, King
Viver