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Perpetrators and their Beliefs
Background/Origin
Opposing Forces/Ideologies
Aftermath
100
Some things Cambodian Citizens were stripped of
What is books, money, schools, hospitals, religion?
100
Cambodia gained its independence from France after 100 years of this rule.
What is colonialist rule?
100
Pol Pot's mission
What is centralized peasant farming?
100
Approximate death toll.
What is 1.7 - 2 million; 20-25% of Cambodia's population?
200
The leader and name of the Cambodian Communist Party
What is Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge?
200
President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger dropped massive bombs on Cambodia to cut off this trail.
What is Ho Chi Minh Trail?
200
The social class that was primarily targeted
What is the upper class?
200
Short-term effect on Cambodia's population. (What happened ensuing the overthrowing of the Khmer Rouge?)
What is widespread starvation and disease?
300
Main groups targeted in genocide
What are intellectuals/competent professionals and non-communists and those who would "not be fit" to build their ideal agrarian state? Also acceptable: certain religious and socioeconomic groups.
300
Pol Pot wanted Cambodia to model this government.
What is Maoist Communism?
300
What "rouge" represents in Khmer Rouge
What is the Communist Party?
300
Removed the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979.
What is communist Vietnam?
400
The name of the U.S.-backed leader who the Khmer Rouge overthrew.
What is Lon Nol?
400
Lol Nol was defeated because of these two main reasons.
What is suppressing Vietnamese communists on Cambodian territory and the Khmer Rouge?
400
Made up the Khmer Rouge
What are uneducated male peasants?
400
What people kept behind to remember the genocide.
What is victims' skulls and bones?
500
Describe the society Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge sought to create.
What is a classless, communist state based on rural agrarian economy?
500
The consequences of abolishing civil rights (2)
What is children were taken away from their families and sent to forced labor camps; factories, schools, and hospitals were shut down; religion was banned, all leading Buddhist monks killed, and temples destroyed?
500
Consisted of people from the Vietnamese People's Army
What is the Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary Armed Forces?
500
Long-term effects of the genocide.
What is a low literacy rate, young population, bad economy, harmed culture, and/or hindrance of commerce?