Cambodia

By devoredps

  • King is born

    Prince Norodom Sihanouk is born.

  • World War II

    The Japanese ocupie Cambodia at this time.

  • Failure

    Japan loses Cambodia when the French re-takes Cambodia.

  • Independence

    Cambodia finaly gets independence from the french.

  • New King

    Norodom Suramarit becomes king. Sihanouk becomes Prime minister for many years.

  • Like father like son.

    Sihanouk is elected as head of state after the death of his father.

  • Vietnam War

    During the 1960s, North Vietnam soldiers took ordinace through Cambodia because American forces where between North and South Vietnam.

  • 1970 (can't thing of a good title

    Exiled in China, Sihanouk aligns himself with the Khmer Rouge and urges.

  • 1975 (I'm gonna put the date for all that titles because i can't think of any names

    The Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, ended the lives of more than 2 million people from starvation, overwork or execution.

  • 1975 x2

    Sihanouk returns as head of state but resigns a few months later and is placed under "palace arrest" of house arrest. by the hardline communist regime.

  • 1979

    Nationalists and royalists attack each other thus creating a civil war.

  • 1982

    Sihanouk becomes the president of the anti-Vietnamese coalition government of Democratic Kampuchea, which includes Sihanouk's newly created FUNCINPEC party and the Khmer Rouge.

  • 1985

    Hun Sen appointed as prime minister of Cambodia.

  • 1989

    Veitnamese troops with draw from international pressure.

  • 1991

    Paris peace agreement is signed, giving the UN authority to supervise a ceasefire and democratic elections.

  • 1991 x2

    Sihanouk makes an epic return to Cambodia after nearly 13 years in exile.

  • 1993

    UN-sponsored elections are held and the royalist FUNCINPEC party receives 47 percent of the vote, ahead of Hun Sen's Cambodia People's Party.

  • 1993 x2

    Sihanouk returns to the throne under a new constitution forming the country into a constitutional monarchy.

  • 1993 x3

    Sihanouk makes first of many trips to Beijing for medical treatment after being diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma, a cancer affecting blood cells crucial to the immune system.

  • Outlawed

    The Khmer Rouge are outlawed.

  • 1997

    Hun Sen ousts Ranariddh in a widely condemned move that leads to deadly factional street fighting.

  • 1998

    Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot dies.

  • 2001

    Sihanouk promulgates a law creating a UN-backed tribunal to bring Khmer Rouge leaders to justice.

  • 2004

    In a surprise announcement, Sihanouk abdicates, citing poor health and a wish to ensure a stable change to a new monarch

  • 2004 x2

    Sihanouk's 51-year-old son Norodom Sihamoni, a former dancer and Cambodia's representative to UNESCO, is named the new king