index. $37.50 paper. ISBN: 1869193512 Portugal, the first of the European powers to acquire an overseas empire, was also the last to try keeping hold of one, leading to protracted brutal wars in ...

As the Cold War settled into détente in the early 1970s ... After five centuries as a colony of Portugal, Angola in West Africa was due to receive its independence in November 1975.

As the Cold War settled into détente in the early 1970s ... After five centuries as a colony of Portugal, Angola in West Africa was due to receive its independence in November 1975.

AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS WHICH RECEIVED DIPLOMATIC OR MILITARY SUPPORT FROM THE SOVIET UNION Angola under Agostinho ... During the Cold War period, it was the only government to do so under the same ...