spanish civil war

• when did this occur?

  1936
• a war broke out between the republicans and nationalists
• how did Britain and france respond initially?

  they refused to intervene
• franco had a similar ideology to hitler and mussolini
• hitler and Mussolini helped Franco by supplying troops, aircraft and other equipment
• German aircraft bombed republican strongholds
• chamberlain was convinced that war should be avoided at all costs due to the terrible impact of modern weapons
• this convinced hitler to reverse the treaty of versailles.
• hitler assumed that Britain and france would take the same attitude to any war (not intervening)