My CAmbODiA TImELiNe

By shoemakercds

  • war

    in the 1940's cambodia fighting against french colonization and were influenced by vietnam (http://www.cambodiatribunal.org/history/cambodian-history/khmer-rouge-history/)

  • movement

    there was a communist movement called the Khmer rouge

  • stuff

    in the late 1960's there was a civil war with the communists. [http://www.localhistories.org/cambodia.html]

  • kill field (yEEEP!!!!!!!!)

    between 1975 and 1979, 1.7 million people died, or were killed. The dead were dumped out in fields. this is where the name killing fields comes from

  • 7 5

    in the 1970's the khmer rouge made everyone move into the country.
    many died during evacuations.

  • 6

    in 1976 the was renamed democratic kampuchea.

  • renaming

    in the 1970's the country was renamed cambodia

  • things

    cambodia gets in a war with vietnam

  • more stuff

    the vietnamese army defeated the khmers in 1979

  • #death

    the khmer leader pol pot died in the 1990's

  • is it good

    in 99 Cambodia became part of the ASEAN