1. Spanish Civil War

2. Opposing Sides -Republicans (the existing government)
-those loyal to the established Republic
urban workers, agricultural labourers, educated middle class
Communists
Socialists
USSR
International Brigades (volunteers from allied countries such as Britain, U.S., Canada)
-Nationalists (rebels)
-General Fransisco Franco
-Italy & Germany

3. Bombing of Geurnica
Aerial attack on the Basque town of Geurnica by German Luftwaffe (Concorde division)
The bombing is considered one of the first raids in the history of modern military aviation on a defenseless civilian population
1,654 people killed (according to Basque government) – the numbers are disputed

8. Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937

9. Symbolism
Bull = brutality of German Luftwaffe
Horse = savagely wounded land of Spain
Lamp = conscience of humankind
Torn bodies and agonised faces = the horrors of war