Creeperian Civil War

This article is about the "Creeperian Civil War" of 1933 to 1949. For other civil conflicts in Creeperopolis, see Creeperian Civil War (disambiguation).

Creeperian Civil War
Part of the Creeperian Conflicts
Clockwise from top-right: the Siege of San Salvador, an execution of communists, the Teguracoa Extermination Camp, the Siege of La'Victoria.
Date 2 January 1933 – 30 September 1949 (16 years, 8 months and 4 weeks) Location Creeperopolis El Salvador State of the Church Castilliano Result Imperial Council victory
Belligerents
Imperial Council (Romerists) Camisas Negras Creeperian Falange People's Catholic Front Militarist Nationalist Front Atlántidan Defense Militia Foreign volunteers Supported by: Atlántida Castilliano El Salvador Quebecshire (materiel only) Salisford State of the Church	National Council (Miguelists) Apostates for the Cause Elite Medical Detachment Atheist Red Army Special Task Squadrons Foreign volunteers Supported by: Ajakanistan Granada Senvar Terranihil
Commanders and leaders
Romero I † Romero II Adolfo Cabañeras Moreno † Alfonso Cabañeras Moreno Máximo Barrueco Morterero Enrique Figueroa Guerrero  Alexander Sánchez Molina Adolfo Rivera López Antonio Sáenz Heredia Ramón Serrano Suñer Hugo Bánzer Suárez Luís Sánchez Cerro † Carlos Castillo Armas	Miguel VII † Marcos I (POW) Juan Salinas Figueroa † Miguel Salinas Ortega (POW) José Bolívar Aguirre (POW) Pascual Espinar Casaus Cayetano Handel Carpio  Mariano Alcocer Fraga (POW) Jorge Meléndez Ramírez  Rolando Rubio Noboa † Simón Berganza Gallo  Adam Schuessler I
Strength
1933 strength: 865,000 soldiers 28 warships 450 aircraft 1943 strength: 3.4 million soldiers 35 warships 2,000 aircraft 1949 strength: 3.1 million soldiers 29 warships 1,800 aircraft	1933 strength: 870,000 soldiers 17 warships 650 aircraft 1943 strength: 3.7 million soldiers 25 warships 1,800 aircraft 1949 strength: 2.2 million soldiers 15 warships 1,000 aircraft
Casualties and losses
3.3 million killed in action 4.5 million wounded in action 0.5 million missing in action 0.9 million prisoners-of-war	3.7 million killed in action 4.5 million wounded in action 0.8 million missing in action 1.0 million prisoners-of-war
9–11 million killed in the De-Catholization 41.2 million total dead, 52.2 million total wounded, 3.2 million total missing

The Creeperian Civil War (Creeperian Spanish – Creeperian: Գփերրա Ծիվիl Ծրեեպերիանո; Creeperian Spanish – Iberic: Guerra Civil Creeperiano) was a major civil armed conflict which took place in Creeperopolis from 2 January 1933 until 30 September 1949.

The civil war was fought between left and right-wing ideological groups; the left, including liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists, and political atheists, joined forces under the banner of the National Council for Peace and Order (National Council; Miguelists; CNPO), while the right, including conservatives, nationalists, fascists, monarchists, and political Catholics, joined forces under the banner of the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council (Imperial Council; Romerists; CRIC). Due to the complex nature and situation of Creeperian politics prior to 1933, the civil war was variously viewed as class struggle, a war of religion, and a struggle between fascism and communism. The Second Parliamentary Era of Creeperopolis was marked by internal violence between political factions and their militias, multiple attempted coups d'état and self coups, various large-scale protest movements, and general instability.

The death of Emperor Adolfo IV on 2 January 1933 triggered the civil war, as his two surviving sons, Prince Romero and Prince Miguel, both of whom had two vastly different political views, declared themselves as Adolfo IV's successor as emperor. Romero I was supported by the right-wing Creeperian Conservative Coalition (CCC) while Miguel VII was supported by the left-wing Creeperian Socialist Party (PSC), and war broke out after military factions loyal to both emperors skirmished in San Salvador del Norte. The skirmish fractured the military in half along ideological lines.

At the outbreak of the war, the Imperial Council controlled the capital city, San Salvador, along with La'Victoria, San Romero, Santa Ana, and Tuxtla Martínez, while the National Council controlled Adolfosburg (proclaimed their capital city), Denshire, La'Libertad, San Miguel, and San Luís. Both sides of the conflict received foreign aid and backing from national governments and from independent foreign volunteers. The civil war ended on 30 September 1949 with a final National Council defeat at the Battle of the Zapatista River, where many of the National Council's highest ranking leaders were captured. The war saw heavy use of tanks, aircraft, chemical weapons, and air raids.

The civil war was the deadliest and bloodiest war in history with up to 41.2 million people dead and up to 52.2 million more wounded. The war was marked by atrocities committed by both sides of the war; the Imperial Council against communists and atheists and the National Council against fascists and Catholics. Each side's string of atrocities were generalized as the White Terror (Imperial Council) and the Red Terror (National Council). The most notable atrocity of the war was the De-Catholization, a genocide, ethnocide, and series of massacres that aimed to eradicate Catholicism from Creeperopolis. The genocide is considered one of the worst in Terraconservan history and was one of the immediate reasons for the establishment of the Terraconserva Council of Nations in 1952. Following the civil war, tens of thousands of Miguelists were executed for their allegiance to the National Council with charges such as war crimes, treason, blasphemy, and apostasy.

The civil war is a part of the wider Creeperian Conflicts, and as a direct consequence of the civil war, the Salvadoran War, Third Senvarian Insurgency, and Papal War began. Following the civil war, many leftists refused to surrender and continued to resist the far-right fundamentalist and authoritarian Catholic regime through partisan and guerrilla means which would be crushed in 1957 with the Massacre of the Seven Thousand. The Condor Initiative was established as a campaign to oppress denial, commendation, and questioning of the De-Catholization and other National Council atrocities committed during the civil war. Although most of the victims of the National Council's atrocities and crimes have been given justice, little to no justice has been given to the victims of the Imperial Council's atrocities and crimes, mostly as either respect for their enduring of the De-Catholization or as simply turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed. The civil war remains as one of the most important and influential events in Creeperian history.

Names

The Creeperian Civil War is known by several names according to different ideologies or groups. To the Romerists and other right-wing groups, the war was called the Second Crusade (Segunda Cruzada) or the Second Creeperian Crusade (Segunda Cruzada Creeperiano) in reference to the religious nature of the war and tie it as a continuation or a renewed Creeperian Crusade that lasted from 1231 to 1345. To the Miguelists and other left-wing groups, the war was called The Rebellion (La'Rebelión) or The Uprising (La'Sublevación) in reference to their claim that the war was started by the Romerist faction of the war. More uncommonly, some scholars and historians have referred to the war as the Second War of the Creeperian Succession (Segunda Guerra de la'Successión Creeperiano) or the Second Creeperian Civil War' (Segunda Guerra Civil Creeperiano) as the War of the Creeperian Succession had previously been referred to as the "Creeperian Civil War" during the 1800s.

Combatants

Imperial Council

Main article: Catholic Imperial Restoration Council

National Council

Main article: National Council for Peace and Order

Foreign support

Main article: Foreign involvement in the Creeperian Civil War

Atrocities

Main article: War crimes during the Creeperian Civil War

White Terror

Main article: White Terror (Creeperopolis)

Red Terror

Main article: Red Terror (Creeperopolis)

De-Catholization

Main article: De-Catholization

See also

Creeperopolis portal Terraconserva portal

• Creeperian Civil War (disambiguation)

Bibliography

• Pareja Palau, Orlando (2009). Guerra Civil [Civil War]. Historia de Creeperopólis (in Creeperian Spanish). 3 (2 ed.). San Salvador, Creeperopolis: Impresión Creeperiano. pp. 1–693. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00001425. ISBN 9780742537415. JSTOR 156558.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

External links

• Creeperian Civil War (NSIndex; 4 October 2019)
• Creeperian Civil War (IIWiki; 9 March 2020)