under pressure from the international community to satisfy the civil rights movement by blacks in rhodesia, an "internal settlement" was drawn up between the smith administration of rhodesia and moderate african nationalist parties not involved in armed resistance. meanwhile, the government continued to battle armed resistance from both soviet- and chinese-backed marxist liberation movements it referred to as "terrorists"- the rhodesian bush war was an extension of the cold war, being a proxy conflict between the west and east, similar to those in vietnam and korea.