1. Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge
What leads to the rise of Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?

2. I. The Killing Fields of Cambodia
A. 1970s: Civil War in Cambodia: US-supported Lon Nol Govt. vs. the Khmer Rouge (Communist rebels) led by Pol Pot
B. 1975: US leaves SE Asia, Khmer Rouge win civil war vs. Lon Nol, westerners flee Cambodia
C. Khmer Rouge troops enter Phnom Penh, Pol Pot orders all people out of cities & into the countryside
1. Cambodians go to reeducation camps to learn the ways of Angka (KR’s form of communism)
D. April 17th, 1975 starts Year Zero of new Republic of Kampuchea
E : 2+ million Cambodians are exterminated (approx. ¼ of pop.) by the Khmer Rouge
F. Vietnam invades Cambodia in 1978, doesn’t agree w/ KR’s style of communism