HISTORIA DE ESPANA

By: Sarah McGreevy

CONTENTS
Fun Facts

Spanish Civil War

Spain's involvement in WW1

FACTS:
The quill pen is thought to have originated in Spain about 1,400 years ago.
Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (1499-1543) discovered California.
The official name of Spain is the Kingdom of Spain.
Spains national sport is football, or soccer
The name Madrid is Arabic for place of many streams.
In 1986 Spain joined the EU(European Union)
SPANISH CIVIL WAR
As Spain did not take part in World War II they were more involved out of all
the 'neutral countries'. Spains reason for not officially getting involved was,
of course, the Spanish Civil War.
This was a bloody civil war fought from 1936-1939 between the Republicans
and the Nationalists.
On one side you had the Republic government. They were largely liberals
and fought against the conservative Nationalist rebels.
The Soviet Union provided the Republicans with significant military
assistance, although France and Britain were more wary about supporting
them.
SPAIN'S INVOLVEMENT IN WW1
During World War 1 Spain was a neutral country as well as Romania, Greece,
Italy and Portugal but most of these countries ended up fighting anyway.
This was because they tried to achieve political
This created several democracies in the Central and Nothern Europe.