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The history of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979 covers Rhodesia's time as a state unrecognised by the international community following the predominantly white minority government's Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965.
From 1964 to 1979, Rhodesia was the name used by the former Southern Rhodesia, first as a British colony (1964–65), then as a self-declared independent country without international recognition (1965–79).
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The Second Chimurenga also known as the Zimbabwean War of Independence as well as the Rhodesian Bush War, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe).
From 1965 to 1979, Rhodesia was one of two independent states on the African continent governed by a white minority of European descent and culture, the other being South Africa . In the late 19th century, the territory north of the Transvaal was chartered to the British South Africa Company, led by Cecil Rhodes.
Oct 30, 2023 · A small white minority seized control of Rhodesia in 1965. Tacit support and weak condemnations extended the regime and its harms.
Armed resistance from their guerrilla movements continued until white rule formally ended in June 1979, when Abel Muzorewa of the African National Congress (ANC) became the first black prime...
On November 11, 1965, Prime Minister Ian Smith issued the infamous Unilateral Declaration of Independence, thus beginning the short, violent history of the renegade British colony of Rhodesia.
