Before the Khmer Rouge
This trail, used by the NVA, ran through Cambodia and Laos.
What are the Ho Chi Minh Trails?
The Khmer Rouge considered this group “pure” and ideal for their agrarian society.
Who are peasant farmers?
Civilians were forcibly removed from cities and sent here.
What are rural villages?
The communist group that seized power in Laos in 1975.
Who are the Pathet Lao?
This Cold War theory influenced U.S. involvement in Laos and Cambodia.
What is the Domino Theory?
The name of the Cambodian government under Lon Nol.
What is the Republic of Cambodia?
Pol Pot renamed Cambodia to this.
What is Democratic Kampuchea?
The Khmer Rouge used these to interrogate and execute suspected traitors.
What are torture camps and prisons?
The year the Lao People's Democratic Republic was established.
What is 1975?
This U.S. president approved Operation Lam Son 719.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This Cambodian leader was overthrown by Lon Nol in 1970.
Who is King Sihanouk?
Pol Pot’s radical plan to erase Cambodia’s past.
What is Year Zero?
This group of people were especially targeted for execution.
Who are intellectuals and professionals?
This ethnic group was trained by the CIA to fight the Pathet Lao.
Who are the Hmong?
This 1973 agreement led to the withdrawal of U.S. support from Cambodia and Laos.
What is the Paris Peace Accord?
The year the Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh.
What is 1975?
The minimum rice yield target per hectare set by the regime.
What is three tonnes?
This many Cambodian teachers were still alive by 1979.
What is 207 out of 2,300?
The CIA-owned airline that operated covert missions in Laos.
What is Air America?
Despite the Geneva Accords, this U.S. president ensured CIA operatives remained active in Laos, escalating covert operations.
Who is JFK?
This operation dropped 2.7 million tonnes of bombs on Cambodia.
What is Operation Freedom Deal?
The operation that led to the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979.
What is Operation Blooming Lotus?
The estimated number of Cambodians who died under the Khmer Rouge.
What is 1.7 million?
This U.S.-backed general led the Hmong resistance against the Pathet Lao.
Who is Vang Pao?
Vietnam allied with this country to overthrow Pol Pot
Who are the USSR?