The Rhodesian Bushwar

The Portuguese arrived and seized control, mostly in this area through trade rather than settlement. The English turned Rhodesia into an industrial nation which supplied some of the best British troops of World War II. agitators from outside Rhodesia waged a war of insurgency against the white-dominated government of Rhodesia. In 1979, under extreme world pressure, far greater than that ever applied by the west to communist countries, the war ended when the white raditions agreed to hand over power to the black majority. It is impossible to find out now how many supported the white government to one degree or another.