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Generally speaking, a civil war is an armed conflict between two opposing groups seeking to control the government of their own nation. Thus in the 1930's there was a Spanish Civil War where progressives were in battle with fascists to obtain control of Spain.The so-called US Civil War, does not fit that description. In the view of many people that conflict was not a civil war, but a war where one group of states was seeking independence from the nation it had been a part of. Of all the names given to the Civil War, perhaps the best one is the "War Between the States".

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