Spanish Revolution of 1936

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/spanish-revolution-of-1936

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the event type?Social and economic revolution
2. What is the initiation?Began with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936
3. What was the Great Spanish Shake-Up?It was a time in 1936 when workers and unions took over factories and farms to run them themselves during the Spanish Revolution.
4. Who ran the factories during the Spanish Revolution?Factories were run by elected worker committees that made decisions together.

Anarcho-syndicalism: A political ideology that advocates for trade-unions as the primary means of achieving revolutionary social change and workers' self-management.
Libertarian Socialism: A political philosophy that combines socialist goals with libertarian political values, emphasizing decentralization and worker self-management.
Collectivization: The process of organizing land, industry, or businesses into collective units, typically owned and managed by the workers or community.
Republican Zone: The territories in Spain controlled by the government and its supporters during the Spanish Civil War.