The newly established republic in the years before the war was a system where a so called “old spain” lost its power to “new spain.” The Civil War was an effect of the unwillingness of “old Spain” to recede from the political scene. A main cause of the Civil War, then, was not (as it usually is) an emergence of a new social and economic class but the unwillingness of the traditional aristocracy, land owners, “…showed first 75 words of 1112 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1112 total…extreme left and right while having a constitutional, middle of the spectrum system. Spain either had to belong to old spain or new spain. The Civil War was a result of varied interests who could not mix. As we can see with hindsight, this is the same issue that will become the cause of a larger european war, Spain’s situation is a micro representation of a universal problem that would arise throughout the world.