Vietnam%20War%20in%20Cambodia

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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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• 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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• 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.