History A-Level
Atrocity and civilian experience
What Atrocity and civilian experience means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Atrocity and civilian experience
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Violence by both sides, including the massacre at Badajoz, the bombing of Guernica, Republican violence against clergy and Nationalist reprisals after capture.
Topics that use Atrocity and civilian experience
- The Spanish Civil War, 1936–39 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Civil-military conflict
- Foreign intervention and non-intervention
- Gender roles and emancipation
- Geography and resources of war
- Ideological conflict
- Ideological fragmentation vs. unity
- International diplomacy and appeasement
- Military campaigns and strategy
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