Timeline of Events:

Enslavement: 

1483 - The Portuguese arrive.

1575 - Portuguese set up Luanda.

17th and 18th centuries - Angola becomes a major Portuguese trading center for slaves. Between 1580 and 1680 more than a million are sent to Brazil.

1836 - Slave trade officially outlawed by the Portuguese government.

1885-1930 - Portugal strengthens their colonial power over Angola, but the local resistance persists.

1951 - Angola's status goes from a colony to an overseas province.

1956 - The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), an independence movement that believed in socialism is formed. Socialism is a form of government where everything belongs to the state. It was based in northern Congo.

1950s-1961 - Nationalist movement grows, and the guerrilla war begins.

1961 - Forced labor is abolished because revolts on coffee plantations kill 50,000. The fight for independence is strengthened.

1974 - Revolution in Portugal, and the colonial empire falls.

Independence

1975 - Angola gains independence but the fight for power continues between MPLA, supported by Cuba, and the FNLA plus Unita, backed by South Africa and the USA.

1976 - MPLA gets higher position of control.

1979 - Jose Eduardo dos Santos takes over as president for MPLA.

Question: What are three major turning points in Angola's history?

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