In the spring of 1937, Republicans won some victories and the rebels decided to focus its main operations in the north. On
April 26, the Legion of German aviation led to a brutal aggression against the population of the Basque town of Guernica, where Hitler launched a devastating armament was preparing to ignite a new world war. By October, the rebel troops had managed to dominate the northern portion except the northeast (Catalonia) and occupied a strip of territory in the west, extending to the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as late Spanish Morocco 1937, the Republicans won a major victory in Teruel, but the city fell to the rebels in February next year. Between March and July 1938, conducted the operation Aragon-Mediterranean, which was an advance forces "national" to the sea and was the partition of Republican territory in two unequal parts. In the following months of 1938 took place the battle of the Soldier, Ebro, which proved to be a campaign of attrition against the Republican Army, whose defeat made clear the route for the rebels could move to Catalonia, which meant virtually the triumph final of the rebel forces. Faced with imminent defeat in November 1938, Juan Negrín (head of government since May 1937) sought a negotiated peace and issued a proposal with minimum conditions ¬: Spanish guarantee of independence, people's right to choose their own government and resignation of reprisals. However, it was clear that it was useless any attempt to negotiate peace with Franco conditions, because the leader wanted the total annihilation of the Republic. On March 28, Franco's troops entered Madrid and three days later dropped the final berths Republican loyalists. The war was terminated on April 1, 1939, the Republic collapsed and their representatives have fled abroad, establishing a republican government in exile. But the end of the Civil War meant that Spain regained peace. In establishing nationwide Franco's government, began a period of terrible reprisals against the vanquished were saved only of repression who went into exile and particularly those who went to America preceded by children during the war had been sent to Mexico, the exiles who went to France were saved only momentarily until that country was occupied by the Nazis The main consequence of the Spanish Civil War was the large number of lives lost (nearly a million ), not all attributable to actions on the war and yes many of them related to violent repression or consented to by both sides, among which may include deaths from bombings on civilian populations. Politically, the result was the sudden change of a government emanating from the ballot box to another arms raised, ie the end of democracy to give way to a harsh dictatorship that lasted until Franco's death in 1975. The main consequences on the economic level were: loss of physical and financial stocks, declining population, destruction of infrastructure, reduced production and reduced income. The majority of Spanish people suffered during the war and the next two decades, the effects of rationing and deprivation of consumer goods. The Marshall Plan after World War II helped the economic recovery in other European countries did not extend to Spain since the Franco regime owed its victory to the Nazi-fascist support. The Spanish Civil War, with all its brutal implications for population and economic and political development of the country, seemed to be the preamble to the new war that threatened the entire world, a conflict that placed the Western nations in the conflict between red terror and the threat of fascism, a war whose development and final outcome, would base the foundations of the historical period we call "world".