1. Context
First Days of the War

2. What was the motive for making it?
Starter
The Movement we are proclaiming has nothing in common with petty politics; it is a nationalist Spanish movement with the sole aim of saving Spain. It is said that the movement is against the working class; precisely the opposite is the case. We are in favour of the humble class and the middle class…Fear nothing Spanish working people.
Broadcast made by Nationalist rebel leader, General Franco, 22nd July 1936
What was the motive for making it?

3. Briefing:
You are the foreign correspondent of the C.B.C.
Every Friday you have to give a one minute round up of events.
It’s Thursday night. You have 5 news stories. These must be edited down to a one minute bulletin.

4. This is the CBC……..

5. In some areas law and order broke down and people looked for revenge.
Churches were burnt, people were killed.

6. In the Nationalist zone and organised campaign of killing of rivals began.
                                                      

7. Franco’s army was flown to Spain.
It marched north, scattering the militia.

8. But in Madrid the Nationalists were stopped

9. The Nationalists tried several more times to surround Madrid but were stopped at Jarama and Guadalajara.

10. The Nationalists decided to reduce the north.
Bombing Guernica and conquering the land.

11. In the Winter the Republicans began an offensive around Teurel
In the Winter the Republicans began an offensive around Teurel. Again, early success and long term failure.

12. The Republicans retreated through Aragon to the River Ebro.

13. One last attempt was made to hold back the Nationalists.

14. The exhausted Republic collapsed between October 1938 and April 1939.