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Even until his death Pol Pot truly believed that the genocide of 3 million people was necessary and if given a second chance he would still do it again.

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The cold war was fought between the soviet union (Russia) and the united state.

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The Government of Cambodia  was headed by Prince Sihanook, the leader of his country since 1941. He was installed by the French and claimed independence for the Country in 1953 and Abdicated his throne to turn Cambodia into a Democratic company. In 1970, Sihanook was overthrown by his Prime Minister Lon Nol, he dissolved the Monarchy and declared Cambodia as the Khmer Republic, in October 1970.
In April 1975, the Khmer Rogue marched into phnom Pehn and the Lon Nol Government formally surrendered and for the next 20 years, Cambodia remained a communist country.

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Took place in Vietnam, the North (Communists) were warring with the south (Capitalists).

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the kymer rouge were in power from 1975 to 1979

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the kymer rouge were in power from 1975 to 1979

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solath sar

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he changed his name from slotah slaugh to pol pot

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Loung Ungs Cambodia is a lush, tropical country in South East Asia

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the war began in 1954 (though conflict in the region stretched back to the mid-1940s), after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between two global superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union.

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North Vietnam was communist, South Vietnam was non-communists. The cold war was found between North and South Vietnam, and each was supported by other countries who had similar viewpoints. America supported South Vietnam, where China supported the North.
Cambodia tried to stay neutral throughout the cold war, however with the amount of communism support in Cambodia, America bombed the communists in 1969.

Soon America supported Cambodia's new Government, Lon Nol. As he was against communism.

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civil war north communist and south were not communist

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The Cold War was between the United States of America and Soviet Russia who both had amounting Nuclear Armaments which can destroy each other many times over. Known as Mutually Assured Destruction. This was a time period of political and nuclear tension.

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Cambodian independence was proclaimed in 1953, but sihanouk abdicated in 1955 to contest popular elections and extend his political involvement in the country.

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The Cold War was in the same year and just after WW2.

It effected the Asia continent

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The United States lost the Vietnam War. It lasted for twenty years, something the US never expected when it joined in the fight. Not only did the US lose the war and the country of Vietnam to the communists, the US lost prestige in the eyes of the world.
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Lon Nol overthrew and declared the Khmer Republic in 1970. Lon Nol was against communism, therefor he gained the support of both America and South Vietnam. The American government allowed Cambodia to fight its own wars, however America said they would support Cambodia in wars, but not military wise.

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Prince Norodom Sihanouk rose to power in 1941 and claimed independence for Cambodia in 1953.

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It was known as the Cold War because the countries never directly fought each other, but used other countries to fight for them.

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he wanted to maintain the loyalty of his people and the keep peace. $_$

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Cambodian independence was proclaimed in 1953, but Sihanouk abdicated in !955 to contest popular elections and extend his political involvement in the country

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lon nol government were friendly with the us

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many believed Cambodians had believed that the french helped the Vietnamese , keep them as their 'traditional enemies'.

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Lon ung government was against communism and so was merica\

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Cambodians thought that the French kept the Vietnamese at bay.

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Despite a communist/nationalist movement emerging during the 1930s, there was little significant activity in Cambodia till after the war

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communism was emerging during the 1930s

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The term “Cold War” was first invented by George Orwell, within his book, “Animal Farm”.

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In a climate of cold war between the USSR and USA, Sihanouk realized he needed both American support and cooperation with the Vietnamese communists.

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Pol Pot (1925-1998) and his communist Khmer Rouge movement led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.

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Pol Pot (1925-1998) and his communist Khmer Rouge movement led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.

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Pol Pot, inspired by Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution of communist China,

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During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers.

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In the 1960's and 1970's Cambodia was being pulled in many different directions. They were in the middle of a civil war

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The Cold War was fought between two powers one from the Eastern Block and one from the Western block

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The khmer rouge referred to phnom penh as the great prostitute of mekong

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He took the pseudonym Pol Pot and joined the underground communist movement. By 1962, Pol Pot was leading the Cambodian Communist Party, which had fled to the jungle in order to escape the wrath of Norodom Sihanouk. ( the prince)

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Dates: November 1, 1955 - April 30, 1975

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Various names have been applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English. It has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict.

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Pol Pot changed his name from Saloth Sar

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The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States

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The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States

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The Cold War cost an estimated $8 trillion – enough money to have fought the Iraq War for 80 years.

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58,220 US soldiers died in the Vietnam War and millions a vietnemese people died in the crossfire

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The United States lost the Vietnam War

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Was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam  during the Vietnam War.

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Ten different U.S. Presidents held office during the Cold War.

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More than 3 million people (including 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War more than half were Vietnamese civilians.

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The Cambodians fled the countryside because the United States was bombing them, this gave pol an advantage

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Americans were capitalists and soviet union were communists

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Before world war 2, Veitnam was a colony of the french

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Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge Army invaded Phenom Penh in 1975.

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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam

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Due the cold war, communism was spread through asia and multiple civil wars happened

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The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc.

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During World War 2, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between them was not good.

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political hostility between countries by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare.

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was a bat

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thanks to vietnam, cambodia was saved from the khmer rounge

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vietnam had a civil war that fought for communism and won

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Since resources were scarce, bullets were considered valuable and were to be saved. Torture was then implemented to keep people in line. Some of these devices are psychological while others are simply physical.

One torture method involved a cloth being placed over the head, obscuring the person's eyesight and limiting the breath, and then water would be poured continuously over the cloth. This gave the feeling of drowning and it only took a few minutes before the person would succumb.

Water, it appeared, was a very good torturing method. People were held upside down in water, put in boiling hot water, were splashed with boiling hot water, and so forth.

Another way to torture a person was to put a spike in a boot, in the heel with the pointy part up, and have the person put their foot in it. This effectively crippled the person, as well as giving excruciating pain.

A popular torturing method was also a popular medical cure 2,500 years ago. Leeches. Leeches would be placed on the victim's exposed skin and the victim would feel the bite of many leeches sucking the blood out of him.

There was also the classic: baby bashing. In a way to cultivate the growth of Cambodia and also to cow the people into obedience, soldiers would literally bash babies against trees, which naturally would kill them. Mothers wept, fathers swore vengeance, but they couldn't do anything. All they could do was try to protect their other children.

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The term “Cold War” was first invented by George Orwell, within his book, “Animal Farm”.

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To date, only a handful of Khmer Rouge leaders have been convicted for their crimes against humanity. Pol Pot died in 1998 without ever being brought to justice for deaths of about 1.5 million innocent Cambodians.

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Witness accounts have even stated that laughing was a reason to be killed. Relationships were basically outlawed along with most forms of physical affection.

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It is estimated that over 150,000 Cambodians died in the civil war, most of them civilians.

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Rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union for control over the postwar world emerged before World War II had even ended.

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1/4 of the Cambodian population was killed during the Khmer Rouge Reign

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The Soviets shot down an American plane and captured the pilot

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Pol Pot was unable to be charged for his crimes, as a heart attacked occurred when he was under house arrest.

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Pol Pot, Leader of the Khmer Rouge Government, Was Never Brought to Trial For His Crimes

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The Cold War was a struggle between communism and capitalism

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started 1947 ended 1991

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Saloth Sar is Pol Pot he worked as a teacher he taught taught history, geography and French literature.

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The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc.

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The amount of fear and trepidation that the Khmer Rouge held was partly due to the U.S bombings in Cambodia which allowed them to send the people out into the countryside under the lie that the U.S was going to bomb the city. When in reality it was to splinter the population so that they could subdue and control those who they caught. The U.S involvement in the Vietnam war actually ended up making life for the Khmer R
ouge much easier and consequently the rest of Cambodia's life so much harder

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The Cold War was a period of tension between America and The Soviet Union. The name, "Cold War" originated from how both opposing sides did not attack each other, despite having strong nuclear weapons.

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The Vietnam war was fought between communists of North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam.

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Leader was Pol Pot

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during the vietnam war, Vietnam has a long history of being ruled by foreign powers, and this led many Vietnamese to see the United States’ involvement in their country as neo-colonialism. China conquered the northern part of modern Vietnam in 111 BC and retained control until 938 AD; it continued to exert some control over the Vietnamese until 1885. Originally, Vietnam ended at the 17th parallel, but it gradually conquered all the area southward along the coastline of the South China Sea and west to Cambodia. Population in the south was mostly clustered in a few areas along the coast; the north always enjoyed a larger population. The two sections were not unlike North and South in the United States prior to the Civil War; their people did not fully trust each other.

France’s military involvement in Vietnam began when it sent warships in 1847, ostensibly to protect Christians from the ruling emperor Gia Long. Before the 1880s, the French controlled Vietnam. In the early 20th century, Vietnamese nationalism began to rise, clashing with the French colonial rulers. By the time of World War II, a number of groups sought Vietnamese independence but as Vo Nguyen Giap—who would build Vietnam’s post–WWII army—expressed it, the communists were the best organized and most action-oriented of these groups. During the Second World War, Vichy France could do little to protect its colony from Japanese occupation. Post-war, the French tried to re-establish control but faced organized opposition from the Viet Minh (short for Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi, or League for the Independence of Vietnam), led by Ho Chi Minh and Giap. The French suffered a major defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, leading to negotiations that ended with the Geneva Agreements, July 21, 1954. Under those agreements, Cambodia and Laos—which had been part of the French colony—received their independence. Vietnam, however, was divided at the 17th parallel. Ho Chi Minh led a communist government in the north (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) with its capital at Hanoi, and a new Republic of South Vietnam was established under President Ngo Dinh Diem, with its capital at Saigon.

The division was supposed to be temporary: elections were to be held in both sections in 1956 to determine the country’s future. When the time came, however, Diem resisted the elections; the more populous north would certainly win. Hanoi re-activated the Viet Minh to conduct guerilla operations in the south, with the intent of destabilizing President Diem’s government. In July 1959, North Vietnam’s leaders passed an ordinance called for continued socialist revolution in the north and a simultaneous revolution in South Vietnam. Some 80,000 Vietnamese from the south had moved to the north after the Geneva Agreements were signed. (Ten times as many Vietnamese had fled the north, where the Communist Party was killing off its rivals, seizing property, and oppressing the large Catholic population.) A cadre was drawn from those who went north; they were trained, equipped and sent back to the south to aid in organizing and guiding the insurgency. (Some in the North Vietnamese government thought the course of war in the south was unwise, but they were overruled.) Although publicly the war in the south was described as a civil war within South Vietnam, it was guided, equipped and reinforced by the communist leadership in Hanoi. The insurgency was called the National Liberation Front (PLF); however, its soldiers and operatives became more commonly known by their opponents as the Viet Cong (VC), short for Vietnamese Communists. The VC were often supplemented by units of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), more often called simply the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) by those fighting against it. Following the Tet Offensive of 1968, the NVA had to assume the major combat role because the VC was decimated during the offensive. A different feeling prevailed among many within the U.S. government. The communist takeover of China and subsequent war in Korea (1950-53) against North Korean and Chinese troops had focused a great deal of attention on Southeast Asia as a place to take a strong stand against the spread of communism. During President Dwight Eisenhower‘s administration (1953–1961), financial aid was given to pay South Vietnam’s military forces and American advisors were sent to help train them. The first American fatality was Air Force Technical Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon, Jr., killed June 8, 1956. (His son, Marine Corps lance corporal Richard Fitzgibbon III would be killed in action in Vietnam September 7, 1965. They were the only father-son pair to die in Vietnam.) In July 1959 Major Dale Buis and Master Sergeant Chester Ovnand were off duty when they were killed during an attack at Bien Hoa.

Ho Chi Minh had been educated in Paris. There is considerable debate over whether he was primarily nationalist or communist, but he was not especially anti-Western. (An American medic treated him during World War II, probably saving his life.) Ho attempted to contact Eisenhower to discuss Vietnam but received no answer. “Ike” may not have seen the message, but at any rate he was focused on establishing NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) as a wall against additional communist advances in Europe and was intent on securing France’s participation in NATO. That would have made any negotiation with Ho politically ticklish. A lingering question of the war is what might have happened if Eisenhower and Ho had arranged a meeting; possibly, an accord could have been reached, or possibly Ho was simply seeking to limit American involvement, in order to more easily depose the Diem government.

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Began in November 1, 1955 - April 30, 1975.

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The protagonist Luong is only a five year old at the time. which is surprising considering how well she remembers the events and understands them.
After her "training" under Met Bong she is forced to believe that the Vietnamese are barbaric and will kill them horribly. Luong's first encounter with a Vietnamese "Youn" is when she is on the road and is watching them give directions and treat the refugees with a cheeky boisterous nature. The Vietnamese invaded Pol Pot's Cambodia in 1978 after political tensions rose because of Pol Pot's anti-Vietnamese policies.

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Crash Course World History: The Cold War

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Crash Course World History: The Cold War

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1. Watch the three YouTube videos on the FTKMF Libguide.
2. Post a detailed comment (approx. 30-50 words) explaining something that you have learnt.

Aim not to repeat any information already posted by a classmate.

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LibGuides: English: First They Killed My Father

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