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Congo Crisis
The
Congo Crisis
was a period of
political upheaval
and
conflict
in the
Republic of the Congo
(today the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
) between 1960 and 1965. It began almost immediately after the Congo became independent from Belgium and ended, unofficially, with the entire country under the rule of
Joseph-Désiré Mobutu
. Constituting a series of
civil wars
, the Congo Crisis was also a
proxy conflict
in the
Cold War
in which the
Soviet Union
and
United States
supported opposing factions. Around 100,000 people are believed to have been killed during the crisis.
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