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Vietnam War in Cambodia
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Timeline
  • Cambodia dragged into the Vietnam War because of
    their geographic location
  • 1965 Cambodian government under Norodom Sihanouk
    allowed North Vietnamese troops to move supplies
  • through Cambodia
  • Five years later General Lon Nol takes over and
    US enter Cambodia to destroy N. Vietnamese supply
    lines and storage facilities

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Timeline
  • In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forces led by Pol
    Pot take over Cambodia and rename it Kampuchea.
  • Move all urban citizens to the countryside and
    destroy all Cambodians affiliated with the
    American supported Lon Nol government.

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Timeline
  • Doctors, lawyers, teachers, were killed
  • Anyone suspected of being tainted with capitalism
    was targeted
  • Establish a purely agrarian society
  • 2 million people died (1/3 of the entire
    countrys population) from starvation and disease
  • Children separated from parents taught torture
    methods with animals

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Refugees
  • Many fled to Thailand when Vietnamese troops
    invade to overthrow Pol Pot in 1979
  • Sent to the US
  • were farmers from rural areas with little to no
    education
  • women who lost their husbands came with children.
  • Refugees had seen war and mass exterminations
    suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Experienced recurring nightmares, emotional
    numbness, loss of appetite, and withdrawal.

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  • The Younger Cambodians still remember and want to
    maintain their identities but America provides so
    many opportunities. They feel as though they are
    being stretched between 2 cultures.
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