Pol Pot
What was Pol Pots real name?
Saloth Sar
What date did the Khmer Rouge take full control of Phnom Penh?
April 17, 1975
What group was massacred in cross-border raids?
Vietnamese
What is the name of the most infamous prison during this time?
S-21 or Tuol Sleng
What country invaded Cambodia in 1978?
Vietnam
What French political group did Pol Pot join while studying in Paris?
French Communist Party
All citizens were forced into what type of labour organizations?
What is the name of the Muslim minority in Cambodia?
Cham Muslims
Revolutionary music
Which Cold War power supported the Khmer Rouge after 1979?
United States
What term refers to the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
Khmer Rouge
Money, trade, and _________ were abolished? (not religion)
Private Property
How was the culture of minorities erased?
Forced marriages
Communal Living
Religions banned
What type of violence lead to the weakening of the Khmer Rouge regime?
What is the name of the first major figure convicted of his crimes?
Comrade Dutch
Why did Pol Pot return to Cambodia after his time in France?
Failed his exams and lost his scholarship
What did people need to call each other, instead of their names?
Comrade
What percent of Cambodians were killed during this genocide?
25%
What happened to women with babies at S21 Prison?
Forced pregnancies
Babies beaten against trees
What happened to Pol Pot?
Continued his resistance to the new government
Died under house arrest in 1998 before he could be tried
Jungle
The Khmer Rouge wanted to abolish what in order to build a self-sufficient, agrarian society?
Modern Technology
Which minority group was not systematically executed?
Chinese
What is the quote that sums up the regimes view of human life?
"To keep you is no benefit, to kill you is no loss"
What date did Phnom Penh fall to Vietnamese troops?
January 7, 1979