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The Algeciras Conference was begun by Germany after it had tested the new French-British understanding by sending a warship to the Tangier where Kaiser William II made a speech favoring Moroccan independence. A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. However, this difficulties. The Spanish Civil War (18 July 1936 - 1 April 1939) was a civil war between Republicans and Nationalists. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. How was the Spanish Civil War a preview for World War II? They were called the Central Powers because they were encircled by the Allied Powers. steadily waned. The Republicans tried to turn their rag-tag militia into an effective fighting The War of Spanish Succession and the Treaty of Utrecht . a document that is an attempt to control king (Charles I) included: -no taxes unless approved by Parliament -no forced loans, no martial law in peacetime, no imprisonment without trial, no quartering of soldiers -KING NOT ABOVE LAW Charles agreed to the petition only because he needed the money lead up to Civil War His analysis and critique of the European and German soul use modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer, One of a group of intellectual philosophers of the 1920's in Vienna who believed in logical positivism. Government forces put down the uprising in most regions except parts of northwestern and southwestern Spain, where the Nationalists held control and named Francisco Franco head of state. leader of the American forces in Europe during WWII leader of troops in Africa and commander in D Day invasion, Italian fascist who rules after Mussolini and with whom the US negotiates a surrender (so much for unconditional surrender--Stalin embittered). The Nationalists, as the rebels were called, received aid from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. At that time Spain was in the grip of a civil war and in April 1937, in broad daylight, the population of the small town of Guernica in the Republican-held Basque region of Spain was devastated by German bombers and fighters from the Condor Legion acting on General Franco's orders.