Angolan Marxists and other radicals grouped in the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) begin guerrilla attacks on Portuguese infrastructure.

With extensive military assistance from Cuba, the MPLA is able to outmaneuver two rival organizations and establish control of Luanda in time for independence on November 11, 1975.

Civil war between the MPLA government and the anti-communist UNITA is to continue on-and-off until 2002, with the killing of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi.