The Angolan Civil War was a major civil conflict in the former portugese colony of Angola, by the Soviet supported communist guerillas, against the American-funded rebels of the
FLEC,
UNITA,
Cabindaball and the
Apartheid south africa.




Causes:[edit]
Ideologically speaking, Angola's three independence movements were at odds after winning Angolan War of Independence. While the MPLA supported Marxist-Leninism and later changed to a social-democratic model, the rural
FNLA and
UNITA were much more militant and right-wing, the first wanting to reestablish the
Congo Empireball and the second wanting more autonomy in a
Federalist (
capitalist File:Angolan Nationalism-icon.pngnationalist)
Republic among the
Angolan ethnicities, and so they soon started to fight for power.