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Rosemblum, R. Picasso and the War Years: 1937-1945. New York: Thames and Hudson Inc., 1998. Print. Picasso's political choices are referred to. Picasso was apart of the the Spanish Republic. According to Picasso, while the painting hung in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it was not a political piece it was simply a depiction of the horrible events of the bombing of the village of Guernica. However, later Picasso told one of his friends that Guernica is a political statement that hangs "in the middle of New York City" (Rosemblum 73). Nazi Germany ignored Picasso's works and called it "the work of a either a lunatic or a of a four-year-old" (Rosemblum 72), although it was a political statement to Nazi Germany and what they did to damage Picasso's homeland of Spain.

"Coco Chanel." Biography.com. Web. 15 Nov 2010\nThis article from Biography.com is about everything from her childhood to her death. It also covers everything from her fashion to her love life. The article also talks about how the economic depression in the 1930s effected Chanel and her business. It also speaks about her connection with Nazi Germany and how she got out of the trouble that she should have been in.

Chipp, H. Picasso's Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1988. Print. In the third chapter, the actual events that lead up to, during, and after the village of Guernica is described in detail. The village was relentlessly bombed on Monday, April 26, 1937 (Chipp 24). Hundreds of bombs were used on a defenseless town. The places that were supposed to be targeted were untouched at the end of the almost four hour bombing mission. In the twelfth chapter, Guernica's political means are discussed but since Picasso could never give a consistent answer the political meaning of Guernica is unknown. Also, the two main figures of the painting, the bull and horse, were described by a poet by the name of Juan Larrea (Chipp 196). According to Larrea, the bull was a heroic figure of "Spanish life" (Chipp 196) and the suffering horse represented the end to "Francoist regime" (Chipp 196).