Cambodia past life

  • 802

    Cambodia empire was founded

  • France took control of the region

    They singed a treaty for over his kingdom
  • French merged Cambodia with Vietnam and Laos to create the Colony

    Which together form modern Vietnam.
  • France granted Cambodia independence

    It was ending 8 decades of colonial control
  • King Sihanouk abdicated in favour of his father

    His dad name is Norodom Suramarit.
  • The killing fields

    At least 1.7 million Cambodians died
  • Cambodia fell to the Khmer ruled

    It was the capture of phnom Phen
  • Khmer Rouge came to power

  • US and South Vietnamese ground forces entered eastern Cambodia to attack Communist sanctuaries there

    Mean while they proved deeper and sized it
  • The Vietnam war spilled over into Cambodia

    The troops cross the border in December 1978
  • Cambodia served Ties with south Vietnam

  • Communist forces backed by Vietnam invaded Cambodia

    They also toppled the Khmer Rouge goverment
  • A new Cambodian government banned the Khmer Rouge.

    But the Khmer Rouge did not stop fighting until Pol Pot died
  • When did the Khmer Rouge end

    The Cambodian genocide was stopped with the Khmer Rouge's overthrow
  • Mars the end of Khmer Rouge regime

    The victory over genocied day
  • Vietnam pulled out of the country

    Know as Cambodia
  • Cambodia had began to stabilize

  • Popular demonstrations in phnom phen took place aginst the goverment

    triggered by widespread allegations of electoral fraud during the Cambodian general election
  • A UN-backed court in Cambodia sentences

  • royal ploughing ceremony

    The ploughing ceremony is an ancient royal rite observed annually in Cambodia