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

The Killing Fields of Cambodia 1970s: Civil War in Cambodia: US backed Lon Nol Govt. vs. the Khmer Rouge (Communist rebels) led by Pol Pot 1975: US leaves SE Asia, Khmer Rouge win civil war vs. Lon Nol, westerners flee Cambodia Khmer Rouge troops enter Phnom Penh, Pol Pot orders all people out of cities & into the countryside Cambodians go to reeducation camps to learn the ways of Angka (KR’s form of communism) April 17th, 1975 starts Year Zero of new Republic of Kampuchea 1975-78: 2+ million Cambodians are exterminated by the Khmer Rouge Vietnam invades Cambodia in 1978, doesn’t agree w/ KR’s style of communism