Research Outline

Erricka De La Mancha
Humanities
Feb. 27, 2009
Research Outline
Ⅰ. Thesis : During the time of the Spanish Civil War taking place from 1936 - 1940 In Spain there was some American journalists living in Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War, for example Ernest Hemingway. The opinion of an American is very different from a Spaniard because they know there culture and know what they are fighting for which was for the government to go from a monarchy to a republic.

Ⅱ. From the article "The Spirit Lives" : A personal perspective on the Spanish civil
war, which explains on who led the war, what troops were fighting and why. The Spanish Civil War pitted the well equipped and well trained nationalist’s armed forces, led by Franco, against the poorly armed forces led by Franco, against the poorly armed and trained troops of the elected republican government.

A. Franco’s forces were backed by Hitler and Mussolini, which were leaders of the fascists.
B. It was an unequal contest because of the leftist liberal republicans.

Ⅲ. May 1937 up to May Orwell, By his own account, had little understanding of the differences that existed between the various political groupings in Spain.
A. The communist parties argument that the completion of the revolution would have to be postponed until after military victory had been achieved a convincing one and argued as much with his comrades in the militia.
B. Spain became a monarchy in 1892 they were figuring out if they should be a monarchy or a republic.
C. 1933- Official republic.
IV. Although there was many fights and arguments about what type of government they should be the American opinion is different from a Spaniard fighting soldiers opinion.

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Quote: "Despite the snowstorm, Anselmo still mans his post. He watches Fascist soldiers who are headquartered inside a sawmill across the road. He realizes that the soldiers are poor peasants just like him. He remembers the first time he killed a man, which was during a raid that Pablo organized."


Question: If he is relating himself to a peasant then does that give him some understanding on the fascist point of view be being a fascist and being a peasant like him.

Comment: I chose this quote because I know the word fascist is an important word in the book I am reading and i hadn't gotten a good understanding of the word until i came across this quote, I think he sees the man as a peasant before a fascist and i think this is an important quote because he sees him first as what he is then what he became from the war.

Second Revolution Assignment

"The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge." The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge. 12 Feb. 2009


This article was very helpful for me because one of my questions that I had was "When did the Spanish Revolution end ?" and it answered it in the first paragraph so i already knew I could get useful information from this article. This also helped extend my vocabulary because there were many words I didn't know how to pronounce or what they meant so I got to look up those words and see how the connected to the point of the article. This is a good overview of the whole spanish revolution and its in the format of a timeline , it all goes in order.

I will use this atricle for a future resource for my research.

Research questions

The title of the book I am reading for our revolution project is For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernnest Hemingway. This book is from the point of view from a guy names Robert Jordan, he is the main character, He is an amaerican that travels to Spain. He goes to go against fascist forces. This is going on in the year of 1936 where the spanish revolution took place.

How has Spain changed or not changed since the spanish revolution?