Fascism and empire: Fascist Italy against republican Spain

Between the Rock and a Hard Place: Spain's International Relations in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

“…Though subsequently relations improved briefly with all three and became excellent with France, the radical changes of policies that accompanied shifts in government from left to right, and the deteriorating international situation left the Republic isolated in July-August 1936 when the Civil War began. 27 It was within this vacuum that the internationalization of the war rapidly took place. Though this has been predominantly analysed in terms of the…”