Angolan War of Independence
| Angolan War of Independence | |||||||
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| Part of The Portuguese Colonial Wars | |||||||
 Portuguese troops on patrol in Angola | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) Cuba |  Estado Novo (Portugal)Supported By:  South Africa Rhodesia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Holden Roberto Jonas Savimbi Agostinho Neto Fidel Castro | Marcelo Caetano Silvino Silvério Marques Camilo Augusto de Miranda Rebocho Vaz Fernando Augusto Santos e Castro | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 90,000 | 65,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 50,000 | 2,991 killed (1,526 KIA & 1,465 non-combat related)[2] 4,684 with permanent deficiency (physical or psychological) | ||||||
The Angolan War of Independence was from 1961 to 1975. Angola fought against Portugal. Portugal was making people in Angola farm cotton. Three different groups in Angola were against Portugal. Agostinho Neto was the leader of the war. Portugal was winning the war when the country's government became democratic. An agreement was signed to let Angola become independent.
About three thousand people died because of the war.[3]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Crocker, Chester A.; Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela R. Aall (2005). Grasping The Nettle: Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict. p. 213.
- ↑ Portugal Angola
- ↑ The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa: Metropolitan Revolution and the Dissolution of Empire by Norrie MacQueen - Mozambique since Independence: Confronting Leviathan by Margaret Hall, Tom Young - Author of Review: Stuart A. Notholt African Affairs, Vol. 97, No. 387 (Apr., 1998), pp. 276-278, JSTOR
