Specialized Council
Spanish Civil War
30 Delegates
Chair: TBC
Co-Chair: TBC
Crisis Director: TBC
Co-Crisis Director: TBC
The Roar of the Twenties had faded into the bitter reality of the Great Depression, and the fragile stability of the Spanish Second Republic was fracturing. After years of intense political polarization, social unrest, and deep-seated ideological divides, Spain has split down the middle. What began as a fractured democracy has ignited into a fierce ideological battleground, pitting the democratically elected Republican government against a rising Nationalist military rebellion.
All is not well, as the nation is torn apart by internal violence, and the fabric of Spanish society threatens to unravel entirely. Beyond the borders of Iberia, foreign powers and opposing global factions watch on with intense scrutiny, eager to contain the spreading flames of radicalism... or to use the Iberian Peninsula as a testing ground for their own imperialist and ideological ambitions.
There is unlikely to be an easy resolution, but the trajectory of history is never truly fixed. The future is the sum of all actions taken in the present, and the choices made under these volatile circumstances are bound to be crucial for the fate of Spain and the coming balance of power in Europe. Will the factions within Spain find a way to navigate the chaos and secure their vision for the nation? Or will the country be pushed to the absolute limits of desperation and total war? You decide.
Representatives of the Second Spanish Republic
Manuel Azaña - President of the Second Spanish Republic
Francisco Largo Caballero - Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic
José Miaja - President of the Madrid Defense Council
Vicente Rojo Lluch - Chief of Staff of the Madrid Defense Council
Buenaventura Durruti - Commander of the Durruti Column
Andreu Nin - General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM)
Dolores Ibárruri - Leader of the Communist Party of Spain
Alexander Orlov - Chief of the NKVD in Spain
Representatives of the Nationalist
Francisco Franco - Head of the Spanish State
Emilio Mola - Commander of the Army of the North
Miguel Cabanellas - President of the National Defense Junta
Juan Yagüe - Commander of the Army of Africa
José Enrique Varela - Commander of Nationalist Forces before Madrid
Wilhelm Faupel - Head of the German Military Mission to Spain
Franjo Tuđman - President of Croatia
General José Sanjurjo Sacanell - Leader of the Nationalist Uprising
External Representatives
Léon Blum - Prime Minister of France
Joseph Stalin - General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler - Führer and Chancellor of Germany
Benito Mussolini - Prime Minister of Italy