Relations with African Nations
HEarly attempts to gain influence in Africa were met
with problems.
–In the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Soviet-supported Prime
Minister Patrice Lumumba was killed in an uprising in 1961.
–In Ghana, President Kwame
Nkrumah and his socialistic government
were overthrown in 1966.
HIn
the 1970s the Soviet Union, with the aid of Cuban troops, helped a communist government come to power in Angola.
HThe
USSR backed the antigovernment Patriotic Front in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
HThe
Soviets backed the (ANC) African National Congress in South Africa in the 1980’s.