Overseas War

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Overseas War is an alternative name for the Portuguese Colonial War, a mid-20th-century conflict in which Portugal fought independence movements in its African colonies.

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Overseas War canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Portuguese Colonial War
armed conflict
colonial war
alsoKnownAs Portuguese Colonial War
surface form: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa

Portuguese Colonial War
surface form: Guerra do Ultramar
alternativeName Portuguese Colonial War
belligerent African independence movements
casusBelli anti-colonial uprisings in Angola in 1961
combatant African liberation movements
Portuguese Armed Forces
conflictType counterinsurgency
guerrilla warfare
countryInvolved Portugal
endedBy Carnation Revolution
endTime 1974
followedBy independence of former Portuguese African colonies
foughtIn Angola
Guinea-Bissau
Mozambique
hasCause African nationalist independence movements
Portuguese refusal to decolonize
hasEffect economic strain on Portugal
military conscription of large numbers of Portuguese men
political opposition to Estado Novo regime
location Angola
surface form: Portuguese Angola

Guinea-Bissau
surface form: Portuguese Guinea

Portuguese East Africa
surface form: Portuguese Mozambique
opponent FNLA
FRELIMO
MPLA
PAIGC
UNITA
partOf decolonization of Africa
precededBy Portuguese colonial rule in Africa
primaryLanguageOfName Portuguese
result end of Portuguese colonial empire in Africa
independence of Angola
independence of Guinea-Bissau
independence of Mozambique
significantEvent start of armed struggle in Angola in 1961
start of armed struggle in Mozambique in 1964
start of armed struggle in Portuguese Guinea in 1963
significantFor end of Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal
startTime 1961
timePeriod 20th century
Cold War

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Portuguese Colonial War alsoKnownAs Overseas War