What 3 ways did the spanish civil war Influence WW2?
1) It gave an opportunity on both sides to test military equiptment, but this applied in far greater measure for Germany and Italy. (Germany sent the Condor Legion–a unit composed of “volunteers” from the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) and from the German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) which served with the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War of July 1936 to March 1939.Condor Legion). It also provided training for the Axis. 2) It provided a window and a testing ground for the coming titanic struggle that will result between two major forms of political government…the Communists and the Fascists. 3) It set up another Fascist government in Europe, which foretold of the initial coming successes of the march of fascism in the European continent. It also lessened the power of the clerics in Spain, something in which they would never recover.
