💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Decolonisation of africa"
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| congo crisis | a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo). |
| algerian warnoun | The war between France and the Algerian nationalist FLN from 1954 to 1962, as a result of which Algeria gained its independence from France. |
| simba rebellion | The Simba rebellion, also known as the Orientale revolt, was a regional uprising which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1963 and 1965 in the wider context of the Congo Crisis and the Cold War. |
| rhodesian bush war | The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second as well as the Zimbabwean War of Independence, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe). |
| revolutions of 1989 | The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world. |
| cold warnoun | (historical) The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, between 1945 and 1991. |
| south vietnamnoun | (historical) A former country in Southeast Asia that governed southern Vietnam from 1955 to 1975. Official name: Republic of Vietnam. |
| scramble for africanoun | (historical) The proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territories during the New Imperialist period between 1881 and 1914. |
| origins of the cold war | The Cold War emerged from the breakdown of relations between two of the primary victors of World War II: the United States and Soviet Union, along with their respective allies in the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc. |
| age of revolution | a period from the late-18th to the mid-19th centuries during which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in most of Europe and the Americas. |
| first congo war | The First Congo War, also known as Africa's First World War, was a civil and international military conflict that lasted from 24 October 1996 to 16 May 1997, primarily taking place in Zaire (which was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the conflict). |
| indochina refugee crisis | the large outflow of people from the former French colonies of Indochina, comprising the countries of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, after communist governments were established in 1975. |
| indochina wars | — |
| eastern blocnoun | (geopolitics, historical) The largely Communist countries of the eastern world, usually Eastern Europe and especially in the Cold War era. |
| ethiopian civil war | a civil war in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea, fought between the Ethiopian military junta known as the Derg and Ethiopian-Eritrean anti-government rebels from 12 September 1974 to 28 May 1991. |
| third indochina war | a series of interconnected armed conflicts, mainly among the various communist factions over strategic influence in Indochina after Communist victory in South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in 1975. |
| cold war in asia | a major dimension of the worldwide Cold War that shaped diplomacy and warfare from the mid-1940s to 1991. |
| portuguese colonial war | The Portuguese Colonial War, also known in Portugal as the Overseas War or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation, and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambican War of Independence, was a 13-year-long conflict fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974. |
| guinea-bissau war of independence | The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence, also known as the Bissau-Guinean War of Independence, was an armed independence conflict that took place in Portuguese Guinea from 1963 to 1974. |
| aftermath of world war i | {{Infobox historical event |
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