Cold War proxy wars: Africa as the battlefield
History and Citizenship · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How Angola, Mozambique, the Congo and the Horn were armed by superpowers, why southern African liberation was delayed, and where Kenya stood.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
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