The Spanish Civil War continues to shape people's lives. ... Thousands volunteered from around the world to join the International Brigades and to defend the Second Republic, including famous writers such as George Orwell. ... On the outbreak of the war Spain had the world's fourth largest reserves of gold. During the war approximately $500 million, or two-thirds of Spain's gold reserves, were shipped to the Soviet Union. This flagrant abuse of Spain's instability and volatile state by some of the world's largest powers could easily have been avoided, had there only ...

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The Treaty of Versailles was not the only cause of World War II, however was one of the important factors. ... Britain wanted increase their colonial power all over the world. ... Lloyd George's attitude was more of a compromise between the two other gentleman. ... This greatly upset them and this led to Mussolinis rise to power, and may have pushed the Italians into joining the Second World War on the side of the Axis.(4) The Treaty of Versailles was absolutely devestating for Germany in regard to their borders. ... In 1918 the German Government had only $577,089,500 dollars, and ...

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