The Angolan Civil War broke out immediately after Angola's independence from Portugal, as three liberation movements, the MPLA, UNITA and the FNLA, which had fought the colonial power, turned on each other. It became a Cold War proxy conflict, with the MPLA government backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba and its rivals supported by the United States, South Africa and Zaire. Fighting continued, with some pauses, for more than a quarter of a century, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and leaving large areas mined. UNITA's leader Jonas Savimbi was killed in 2002, which led to a ceasefire and the end of the war.
Before and after
- 31 October 1975Bohemian Rhapsody
- November 1975Founding of G7
- 1 November 1975Founding of UN Tourism
- 8 November 1975Cabinda Conflict
- from 11 November 1975 to 4 April 2002Angolan Civil War
- 20 November 1975Death of Francisco Franco
- from 20 November 1975 to 1 January 1983Spanish transition to democracy
- from 25 November 1975 to 1 January 1989Operation Condor
- from 7 December 1975 to 26 March 1979Indonesian invasion of East Timor
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