PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Mikhail Gorbachev, Good Governance, Idi Amin

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: JIBA

Document Summary

Africa seen as having a little significance for the cold war. In 1960s, many national liberation movements and parties start to occur in africa, supported by cuba, china and soviet union only soviet union could provide a significant military and economic assistance. Things change in 1974 portugal wanted to withdraw from all african colonies and avoid war. Transfer of power in guinea-bissau, mozambique and angola increased superpower intervention in africa. Civil war in angola in 1975: national front of liberation of angola [fnla], the popular movement for the. Liberation of angola [mpla], the national union for the total independence of angola. [unita: when country was to have elections after gaining independence in november 1975, parties could not reach consensus so they started to seek for outside support south. Africa, usa, cuba, soviet union, zaire party ideological differences but mainly tribunal and ethnical animosities: the international assistance started when south africa invaded in order to prevent.