Prince Sihanouk
What years did Sihanouk's reigns start?
1941 and 1993
what year did Vietnam invade Cambodia?
December of 1978
What year did China's Year Zero occur? Cambodia's?
1966 & 1975
What was the route the U.S bombed to target the Vietnamese Communists?
The Ho Chi Minh trail
What year did Khmer Rouge reign end?
1979
Who did Sihanouk align with that made him controversial?
The Khmer Rouge
Who did not support the vietnam military?
The Soviet Union
What type of person did the Khmer Rouge and Red Guard attack most?
Intellectuals and Old people
what was the name of President Nixon’s bombing campaign in 1969?
“Operation Menu”
Where did the Khmer Rouge originally originate?
Remote jungle and mountain areas
What 3 powers did Sihanouk serve as other than king?
prime minister, head of state and president.
What was the most brutal massacre in Vietnam? How many deaths?
The most brutal massacre in Vietnam is in Ba Chuc and it killed more than 3000 people.
What type of people made up both the Khmer Rouge and the Red Guard?
Students and children
why was Cambodia an ideal country for the Vietnamese Communists to regroup and set up their military bases?
They were neutral and had a weak military
Who did the khmer rouge target and kill once the genocide began?
People with glasses, knowledge of a foreign language, intellectuals, and royals
What program did Sihanouk find?
Sangkum Reastr Niyum(peoples socialist party)
What was the main reason why Vietnam invaded Cambodia?
Vietnam invaded Cambodia because they were worried that Pol Pot would get too close with China.
What idea did Pol Pot use from the Cultural Revolution?
Year Zero
By crossing the Cambodian border, between what two possible choices did the U.S have to make?
1.respect Cambodia’s policies, but lose the war or 2.cross the border and fight on Cambodian soil, but receive backlash from the U.S public and rest of the world
How did Pol Pot transform Cambodia?
Setting it to year zero and emptying cities, abolishing money, private property, religion setting up rural collectives
Who rejected Sihanouk's government proposal?
Norodom Ranariddh and Hun Sen.
What did Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge wanted to do to the Cambodians and what did they do instead? How many killed?
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge wanted to “purify” the Cambodians and they killed about 1.5 million people.
What is the idea of Year Zero and what does it entail?
idea of starting anew, means purging country anything before the time Year Zero began
In the peace agreement of 1973, under what 3 conditions would the U.S remove their troops?
ceasefire, return prisoners of war, North Vietnam had to legitimize the South’s gov.
What are at least three aspects of life that the khmer rouge controlled?
Jewelry, gambling, most reading material outlawed, children were taken from homes and forced into the military, strict rules governing sexual relations, vocabulary, and clothing laid down