The Second Matabele War , also known as the Matabeleland Rebellion or part of what is now known in Zimbabwe as the First `` Chimurenga '' , was fought Hostile_encounter between 1896 and 1897 in the area then known as Rhodesia , now Zimbabwe .

The Rhodesian Bush War—also called Name_conferral the Second Chimurenga and the Zimbabwe War of Liberation—was a civil conflict Hostile_encounter from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia ( later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia ) .