• During the 1960s, many independence movements emerged in countries near Rhodesia, which had significant effects on political affairs and social conditions...
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    The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation (CAF), was a colonial federation that consisted of three southern...
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    Rhodesia (/roʊˈdiːʒə/ roh-DEE-zhə, /roʊˈdiːʃə/ roh-DEE-shə; Shona: Rodizha), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in...
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    Zimbabwe Rhodesia (/zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ roʊˈdiːʒə, zɪmˈbɑːbwi roʊˈdiːʒə/), alternatively known as Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, also informally known as Zimbabwe...
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    civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe). The conflict pitted three...
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    Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked, self-governing British Crown colony in Southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa...
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    experience of self-rule quickly advanced to independence during the early 1960s while Rhodesia was refused sovereignty under the newly ascendant principle of "no...
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    Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in Southern Africa, now the independent country of Zambia. It was formed in 1911 by amalgamating the two...
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  • Africa Police. White civilians were targeted in some attacks such as Air Rhodesia Flight 825 and Air Rhodesia Flight 827. The community faced fresh economic...
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    respectively—during the Rhodesian Bush War of the 1960s and 1970s. The Lancaster House Agreement and the return of Rhodesia to de facto British control on 12 December...
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    The Rhodesia Regiment (RR) was one of the oldest and largest regiments in the Rhodesian Army. It served on the side of the United Kingdom in the Second...
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  • FN FAL (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1953)
    British dependencies in the postwar era, Southern Rhodesia adopted the Commonwealth pattern L1A1 SLR by the early 1960s. Southern Rhodesia contributed small...
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    Rhodesia had limited democracy in the sense that it had the Westminster parliamentary system with multiple political parties contesting the seats in parliament...
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  • south to Rhodesia in the early 1960s. In 1978, Louis W. Bolze and Rose Martin published their satiric cartoon book The Whenwes of Rhodesia. The next...
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  • singles on Rhodesia's music chart, the Lyons Maid Hits Of The Week, broadcast by Radio 1. Its rankings were based on weekly sales. In the late 1960s and early...
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    of the Jews in Zimbabwe reaches back over one century. Present-day Zimbabwe was formerly known as Southern Rhodesia and later as Rhodesia. During the...
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  • of Southern Rhodesia, it was the air arm of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland between 1953 and 31 December 1963; of Southern Rhodesia once again...
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    Southern Rhodesia, then a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom that was located in the now-independent Zimbabwe, entered World War II along with...
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    regiment was formed in May 1940 in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia. The RAR were officially declared the successor to the Rhodesia Native Regiment...
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    Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (category 1964 establishments in Southern Rhodesia)
    Marxist–Leninist political party in Rhodesia. It participated in the Rhodesian Bush War against white minority rule of Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe). ZIPRA (or...
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  • 1970 in the self-declared Republic of Rhodesia. President: Clifford Dupont (from 2 March 1970) Prime Minister: Ian Smith 17 February - Decimal Day in Rhodesia...
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    led by Joshua Nkomo from its founding in the early-1960s. When Northern Rhodesia achieved independence as Zambia in 1964, the Southern Rhodesian government...
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    Ian Smith (category Finance ministers of Rhodesia)
    farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October 1964 and now known as Zimbabwe) from 1964 to...
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  • active during the 1960s and 1970s, up to the end of white minority rule in Rhodesia and the transition to Zimbabwe. It had branches in all states of Australia...
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    spoke Yiddish. By the early 1960s, there was a diaspora of around 1000 Jews residing in Northern Rhodesia.  Northern Rhodesia was considered a safe haven...
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  • Tim Dantay (category British television actor, 1960s birth stubs)
    is a British actor who was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and brought up in the Lake District. Four Nights in Knaresborough (UK tour, 2001) Tim...
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  • foreign volunteers enlisted. The issue attracted a degree of controversy as Rhodesia was the subject of international sanctions that banned military assistance...
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  • events that happened during 1973 in Rhodesia. President: Clifford Dupont Prime Minister: Ian Smith 9 January - Rhodesia closes its borders with Zambia due...
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  • of cricket in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia and before 1965 Southern Rhodesia, includes Rhodesia first forming a first-class cricket team in August 1890...
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    declared war on Germany at the start of World War I in August 1914, settler society in Southern Rhodesia, then administered by the British South Africa Company...
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