People's Republic of Angola

This article is about the specific polity People's Republic of Angola and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Socialist state which governed Angola from its independence in 1975 until 25 August 1992, during the Angolan Civil War.

Establishment

November 1975: After the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974 and the overthrow of the corporatist and authoritarian Estado Novo regime in Portugal, the new Portuguese government offered a ceasefire. On November 11, 1975, the last Portuguese troops left Angola unilaterally. The war of independence then turned into a bloody civil war.