I found some great pictures of the Civil War:
(http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/index.html)






Here are quick facts about the Spanish Civil War from USAToday.com:

Spanish Civil War facts and figures

By The Associated Press

A glance at the causes and outcome of the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War:

START: July 17, 1936.

CAUSES: Rebel generals, among them future dictator Francisco Franco, rose up against the democratically elected, left-leaning government. The conflict became a battlefield of ideologies -- church against the state; the landed against the landless, fascism against elected socialists and communists.

GLOBAL SUPPORT: In a conflict generally considered a precursor to World War II, Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy backed Franco generously and the Soviet Union helped arm the Republicans. The rest of Europe and the United States opted for nonintervention.

DEATH TOLL: Some 500,000.

END: April 1, 1939.

OUTCOME: The rebel victory began a dictatorship which lasted until Franco's death in 1975. Spain then made a bloodless transition to democracy with a new constitution adopted in 1978. It is now a member of the European Union and the fifth-largest economy in the 27-nation bloc.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

I found this information on children and the civil war very interesting:
From Columbia University's website, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/children/

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) children were evacuated from the war zones to "colonies" in the war-free areas of Spain and in the south of France. Drawings by these children – most between the ages of seven and fourteen – were collected from throughout Spain in a concerted effort by the Spanish Board of Education and the Carnegie Institute of Spain. A large group was assembled by Joseph A. Weissberger in early 1938 and brought to the United States on behalf of the Spanish Child Welfare Association for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC – "Quakers"). They were used by the AFSC as a means to publicize the plight of the children and collect funds for more evacuations and other assistance. Over 850 of these drawings have been identified in a variety of locations. Columbia received the 153 images presented here in 1938 through a bequest and they became part of the collections of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library in 1977.