Fascist military coup against the Second Spanish Republic
This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article.(July 2022)
Spanish coup of July 1936
Part of the Spanish Civil War
Republican soldiers and Assault Guards fighting in Barcelona during the uprising
Date
17–21 July 1936
Location
Spain
Result
Start of the Spanish Civil War
Rebel failure to overthrow the Spanish government
Government failure to fully suppress the rebellion
Belligerents
Spanish government
Army rebels
Commanders and leaders
Manuel Azaña José Giral Santiago Casares José Miaja
José Sanjurjo † Emilio Mola Francisco Franco Manuel Goded
v
t
e
Spanish Civil War
Background
List of battles
July 1936 uprising
Melilla
Seville
1st Barcelona
Cuartel de la Montaña
Gijón
Oviedo
Cuartel de Loyola
1936
German intervention
Guadarrama
Andalusia
Alcázar
Extremadura
Convoy de la Victoria
Almendralejo
Sigüenza
1st Mérida
Badajoz
Majorca
Sierra Guadalupe
Córdoba
Gipuzkoa
Irún
Monte Pelado
Talavera
Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza
Guinea
Cerro Muriano
Cape Spartel
Seseña
Madrid
Ciudad Universitaria
1st Corunna Road
Villarreal
Ursula
Aceituna
Lopera
2nd Corunna Road
1937
3rd Corunna Road
Málaga
Jarama
Cape Machichaco
Guadalajara
Pozoblanco
War in the North
Cantabrian Sea
Biscay
Durango
Guernica
Bilbao
Santander
Asturias
El Mazuco
Jaén
2nd Barcelona
Deutschland
Almería
Segovia
Huesca
Albarracín
Brunete
Zaragoza
1st Belchite
Cape Cherchell
Sabiñánigo
1st Lérida
Teruel
1938
Valladolid
Alfambra
Cape Palos
Aragon
2nd Belchite
3rd Barcelona
Caspe
2nd Lérida
1st Gandesa
Segre
Levante
Balaguer
Los Blázquez
Alicante
Granollers
Bielsa
2nd Mérida
Ebro
2nd Gandesa
Cantabria
Cabra
Sant Vicenç de Calders
1939
Catalonia
Valsequillo
Xàtiva
La Garriga
Minorca
Cartagena
Final offensive
The Spanish coup of July 1936[1] was a nationalist and military uprising that was intended to overthrow the Spanish Second Republic but precipitated the Spanish Civil War; Nationalists fought against Republicans for control of Spain. The coup was organized for 18 July 1936, although it started the previous day in Spanish Morocco, and resulted in a split of the Spanish military and territorial control, rather than a prompt transfer of power. The resulting war, Western neutrality, and active Axis support ultimately led to the establishment of a nationalist regime under Francisco Franco, who became ruler of Spain as caudillo.
The rising was intended to be swift, but the government retained control of most of the country including Málaga, Jaén and Almería. Cádiz was taken by the rebels, and General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano managed to secure Seville. In Madrid, the rebels were hemmed into the Montaña barracks, which fell with much bloodshed. On 19 July, the cabinet headed by the newly appointed prime minister José Giral ordered the distribution of weapons to the unions.[2] With the defeat of the rebels in Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia, anarchists took control of large parts of Aragon and Catalonia. The rebel General Goded surrendered in Barcelona and was later sentenced to death and executed. The rebels secured the support of around half of Spanish Army, which totalled about 66,000 men, including large numbers who were on leave, as well as the 30,000-strong army of Africa.[3] The army of Africa was Spain's most professional and capable military force. The government retained less than half the supply of rifles, heavy and light machine guns and artillery pieces. Both sides had few tanks and outdated aircraft, while naval capacity was reasonably even. The defection of many regular officers weakened Republican units of all types.
^(Spanish: Golpe de Estado de España de julio de 1936 or, among the rebels, Alzamiento Nacional)
^Thomas, Hugh (2003). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin. p. 219. ISBN 0-141-01161-0.
^Thomas, Hugh (2003). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin. p. 315. ISBN 0-141-01161-0.
and 24 Related for: Spanish coup of July 1936 information
The SpanishcoupofJuly1936 was a nationalist and military uprising that was intended to overthrow the Spanish Second Republic but precipitated the Spanish...
The 1936coup in the Albacete province was part of a nationwide military-civilian revolt. On July 19–20 the rebels easily gained control of the entire...
government of the Second Spanish Republic in the SpanishcoupofJuly1936. One of the main goals of the coup was to take control of the main cities of the country...
Somoza family's 43-year rule. SpanishcoupofJuly1936: Nationalists seized control of parts ofSpain, commencing the Spanish Civil War. Later, General Francisco...
support to the Nationalist faction after the SpanishcoupofJuly1936, which marked the onset of the Spanish Civil War. The corps and its Nazi German allies...
accident) SpanishcoupofJuly1936: Francisco Franco and other high-ranking officers in the Spanish Army launched a coup against the Second Spanish Republic...
gained much support in the months before the SpanishcoupofJuly1936, which marked the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, and it was a major force during...
One of the main goals of the SpanishcoupofJuly1936 was to secure Spanish Morocco, because the Spanish Army of Africa was the main shock force of the...
Sebastián, Spain, on 21 July1936. It was part of the SpanishcoupofJuly1936 against the Second Spanish Republic, which led to the start of the Spanish Civil...
1936 Carlist coup d'état was a plan to topple the Spanish republican government and install a Traditionalist monarchy. It was conceived by top executive...
Falangism (Spanish: Falangismo) was the political ideology of two political parties in Spain that were known as the Falange, namely first the Falange...
system – exactly what depended on the nature of the catastrophist group. Ultimately, the SpanishcoupofJuly1936 would represent a catastrophist insurrection...
failed coup into a long-lasting civil war. The coupofJuly1936 commenced in the Spanish Morocco; on July 17 the rebels easily gained control of most of the...
The July1936 military uprising in Seville was part of a nationwide coup d'état in Spain, launched by part of the Spanish army. It was supposed to topple...
the mid-1930s came to nothing when the SpanishcoupofJuly1936 initiated the Spanish Civil War. At the start of the conflict, the crew murdered the ship's...
elections were held in Spain on 16 February 1936. At stake were all 473 seats in the unicameral Cortes Generales. The winners of the 1936 elections were the...
end of the second Italo-Ethiopian War. After the SpanishcoupofJuly1936, The Spanish Civil War started, Mussolini started supplying Francoist Spain under...
(Spanish: Mientras dure la guerra) is a 2019 Spanish-Argentine historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar. Set in 1936, during the Spanish Civil...
Spanish Republic (Spanish: República Española), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (Spanish: Segunda República Española), was the form of government...
after the partial failure of the coup d'état ofJuly1936 against the Republican government by a group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces...
one of the units of law enforcement where the 1936SpanishcoupofJuly1936, which led to the Spanish Civil War, found the least support. With the regular...
after the SpanishcoupofJuly1936, Spain bought Standardmodell rifles and carbines. The German Condor Legion fighting during the Spanish Civil War also...
marriage and divorce. With the SpanishCoupofJuly1936, legal measures that progressed women into the social and economic sector of equal access into the labor...