On the Nationalist side, there were four main factions; the Carlists, the Catholic Church, the Falange, and the Monarchists. The Carlists supported the claim of the descendants of Don Carlos to the throne of Spain. They wanted a return to a traditionalist ultra-Catholic monarchy. The movement's support came from the Requetes, the Pelayos and the Margaritas, whose recruits were mainly drawn from the families of Navarrese smallholders. The Catholic Church supported CEDA, a composite right-wing Catholic party founded in 1933 by Gil Robles. It was formed from the Accion Popular and Partido Agrario, and had a youth movement known as the JAP. Although successful in the 1933 elections, the Party virtually collapsed after the Popular Front victory in 1936. The membership of JAP then switched to the Falange. The Falange was a small fascist. It gained some popular support when it merged with the JONS in 1934 to form the Falange Espanola de las JONS. The Monarchist groups, which included Accion Espanola and Renovacion Espanola, supported the claim of the descendants of Queen Isabella II to the throne of Spain. The Monarchist movement, which had the support of conservative army officers, became the

The Spanish Civil War belongs to one of the most ideological and extremist periods in Europe's recent history. The ideologies of the 1920's and 1930's all believed that they had the ability to change the world, and that it was their rightful duty to do so. "On each side, the war was fought over different but interrelated issus." These ideologies were often portrayed on posters during the war, giving a feeling of hope and optimism and encouragement. The workers wanted emancipation and they and their left-wing parties took control of their cities. They hated the idea of Franco's fascist troops taking control of their beloved country and tried everything they could to stop them. The new Republican government had started to set about the task of modernizing Spain, but class conflict erupted. To break up the big estates of the rich and give land to the landless peasants was considered by the wealthy to be an attack on property. The capitalists saw improving the conditions of those who worked in factories, shipyards and mines as threatening their profits. Giving autonomy to Catalonia was for the right-wing nationalists the tearng of Spain to shreds. Conservative Catholics saw removing the privileges of the enormously wealthy Catholic Church as the "dechristianization" of the country. Moves to reduce the overblown officer corps created animosity against the government from within the army. Ultimately these conservative social forces sought the restoration of order by launching a military coup. The aim of the army rebellion led by General Franco and his Nationalist movement was the crushing of the Republican government in Madrid, but instead this treason was met with popular armed resistance.

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