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Date	July 17, 1936 - March 28, 1939
Location	Spain
Participants	Republican • Nationalists

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Spain operates by the incorrect time zone today because Francisco Franco changed the time to align with Nazi Germany's in 1940.

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Francisco Franco

ruler of Spain

Dolores Ibárruri

Spanish political leader

Francisco Largo Caballero

prime minister of Spain

Hugo Sperrle

German military officer

Juan Negrín López

prime minister of Spain

Norman Bethune

Canadian surgeon and political activist

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