The Rhodesian Bush War—also known as the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Liberation—was a civil war that took place from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (latterly Zimbabwe-Rhodesia).The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian government, under Ian Smith (later the Zimbabwe Rhodesian government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa); the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the military wing of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union; and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union.The war and its subsequent Internal Settlement, signed in 1978 by Smith and Muzorewa, led to the implementation in June 1979 of universal suffrage and end of white minority rule in Rhodesia, which was renamed Zimbabwe Rhodesia under a black majority government.
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| - The Rhodesian Bush War—also known as the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Liberation—was a civil war that took place from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (latterly Zimbabwe-Rhodesia).The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian government, under Ian Smith (later the Zimbabwe Rhodesian government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa); the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the military wing of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union; and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union.The war and its subsequent Internal Settlement, signed in 1978 by Smith and Muzorewa, led to the implementation in June 1979 of universal suffrage and end of white minority rule in Rhodesia, which was renamed Zimbabwe Rhodesia under a black majority government.
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- Second Chimurenga
- Zimbabwe War of Liberation
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| - 1,361 Rhodesian security forces members killed
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- South Africa
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- Rhodesia
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- (from March 1978)
- (until 1 June 1979)
- (until 1974)
- (until March 1978)
- 22px|border|link=African National CongressMK(ANC)
- FRELIMO( (until 25 June 1975)
- FROLIZI
- Mozambique( (from 25 June 1975)
- Zimbabwe Rhodesia
- 22px|border|link=Zimbabwe African People's UnionZIPRA(ZAPU)
- 22px|border|link=Zimbabwe African National UnionZANLA(ZANU)
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| - 468 white civilians killed
- 7,790 black civilians killed
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| - Lancaster House Agreement, internationally-recognised independence for theRepublic of Zimbabwe
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- 10,800 regulars
- 15,000 reservists
- 19,000 police reservists
- 1979:
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- 20,000 guerrillas
- 25,500 guerrillas
- 8,000 police
- 22px|border|link=Zimbabwe African National Union1979:
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