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Us Intervention of Cambodian Civil War
On March 18, 1969, American B-52s
began carpet-bombing eastern Cambodia.
The bombing was kept a secret from
congress be the Nixon administration
eventually leading the Watergate scandal.
During the carpet bombing over 2,500,000
tons of bombs were dropped and
somewhere between 150,000 and 500,000
Civilians were killed. The indiscriminate
bombing gave rise to Pol Pot.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ca
mbodia/tl02.html
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Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)
Pol Pot born Saloth Sar was born around
1928 and died in 1998. Pol Pot was
incredibly secretive and what little we o
know about him has come out post
mortem, first he was a former school
teacher, while in France in the 1950’s
while studying he became attracted to
Communism and eventually became a
Maoist after visiting China in the 1960’s.
He rose to power in the 1970’s as the
leader of the Khmer Rouge and led one of
the harshest genocides the world has ever
seen.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stori
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Khmer Rouge Flag
On April 17, 1975, less than two weeks
before the fall of Saigon, the Khmer
Rouge seized Phnom Penh and
immediately began to drive the city's 2
million residents into the countryside. This
was the first action made after rising to
power after their quick rise to power after
American bombing led to skyrocketing
enlistment. After forcing an agrarian
society on Cambodia they also had a
genocide against all those who were
reasonably well educated essentially
wiping out the entire educated class.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stori
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Richard Nixon
In 1969, President Richard Nixon and
his National Security Advisor, Henry A.
Kissinger, unleashed B-52 carpet
bombing for over fourteen months.
Nixon kept the bombings top secret and
on a need to know basis. Eventually The
New York Times leaked about the
bombing. The people were out raged,
and Nixon became a nervous wreck who
wire tapped a lot of high ranking
officials. This mass wire tapping of those
unaware became the Watergate scandal
which got Nixon impeached.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Am
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Royal Laos Government in Exile
On May 11, 1975 Prince Souvannaphouma
the Prime Minister of Lao Provisional
Government of national Union (PGNU)
had issued an executive order to appoint
Gen. Ouane Boupha the communist Pathet
Lao faction representative to take in
charge of Laos National Defence Ministry
and the Royal Laos Armed Forces to
replace Tiao Sisouk Nachampasack the
Royal Laos faction representative.
This was the beginning of the communist
uprising in Laos with the civil war in
swing there was a cry to help from the
government in peril and Nixon cam to
there aid with B-52’s.
http://rlge.org/home.htm
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Pathet Lao
Founded in 1950, the Pathet Lao (Lao
Country) movement joined with the Viet
Minh, the Communist-oriented
Vietnamese nationalist organization, in
armed resistance to French rule
in Indochina . They took control over Laos
after Gen. Ouane Boupha was appointed
and he issued executive orders
condemning all RLGE officers.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked
/topic/446407/Pathet-Lao
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Laotian Monk with part of an American
plane
This image shows the lasting impression of
bombing Laos, specifically the tons and tons of
UneXploded Ordinance (UXO). These
unexploded bombs cause dozens of deaths
and injuries a year, many to children. This
lasting image of American made bombs
causing harm to children was used intensely by
rebels to recruit people by the dozens.
http://www.uxolao.org/index.php/en/the-uxo-problem
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Bombing of Laos
When the Laotian government was under
attack they called tot the Americans for help,
the Americans responded with 50 million tons
of bombs making Laos the most bombed
country in the world. When the American pilots
were given orders on where to bomb a vast
majority of targets were civilian or were never
specified.
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Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)
Ho Minh founded the Viet Minh during the war
with Vietnams war with Japan. Became leader
of said Viet Minh and led the war in Vietnam
against the Americans with incredible cunning.
Ho Chi Minh ended up winning the war with
American and taking all of Vietnam and
converting it to communism.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chiminh/biography.htm
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Vietnam War (1954–75)
The Vietnam war was a proxy war between the
US and the Viet Cong. The Viet Cong were
backed by the Soviets and also had the Ho Chi
Minh trail though indo-china. The lasting effects
of the war today are that Vietnam is
communist, and Agent Orange contamination is
rampant.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628478/Viet
nam-War
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Viet Minh flag
Core group of Viet Cong formed in 1941 in
China. They eventually made there way into
Vietnam and created the Viet Cong army. They
were the closest group to Ho Chi Minh, and the
original leaders of the revolution.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked
/topic/628312/Viet-Minh
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Gen. William Wesmoreland (1914-2005)
Gen. William Westmoreland was the
Commander of the American Assistance
Command, which meant he was in control of all
American troops fighting in Vietnam. Moreland
was the general that faced the brutal Tet
Offensive, the Tet Offensive was the final straw
in the war that pushed America out.
http://www.biography.com/people/william-westmoreland9528510#vietnam&awesm=~oCHXbxnQHV11DV
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev was the last of the Soviet rulers and
over saw the dismantling of the USSR.
Towards the end of 1988 and beginning of
1989 Gorbachev oversaw the end of the Soviet
occupation of Afghanistan. Gorbachev also
oversaw the end of the communist rulers in the
Soviet bloc countries and tacitly ended the
Cold War by dissolving the USSR after
watching the communist hold dissipate.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/238982/Mikh
ail-Gorbachev
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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan started in
1979 with the movement of thousands of
soldiers into Afghanistan The Soviets saw it
more as an intervention as there was a military
coup at the time.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/19
77-1980/soviet-invasion-afghanistan
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Mujahideen
The Mujahideen were a terrorist group formed
when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan to help a
military take over that would’ve formed a
communist alliance. The soviets backed the
military and the US backed the Mujahideen
with training and rockets, such as the ones
used to down the Soviet helicopter pictured.
http://www.coldwar.org/articles/70s/afghan_war.asp
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Ahmad Shah Masood (1951-2001)
Masood was the leader of the Mujahideen, the
main opponent of the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan. He led the Mujahideen to a
glorious victory over the Soviets. He has been
hailed as the Afghan that won the war.
http://www.afghan-web.com/bios/yest/asmasood.html
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