Modern Cambodia

By Shoemakerdms

  • Independence

    This is when Cambodia gained independence from France. They were uncolonized after 90 years.

  • Traitors

    Cambodia breaks its alliance with the US and allows the North Vietnamese to set up camp in Cambodia.

  • Bombing begins

    The United States began bombing the North Vietnamese on Cambodian soil

  • Pol Pot

    Pol Pot takes over as leader and kills and tortures thousands of middle-class​ Cambodians

  • Democratic Kampuchea

    the new name of the country while Pol Pot as​ prime minister

  • Vietnam Attacks

    Cambodia was raided on a Vietnamese terrorist attack

  • Phnom Penh

    Vietnam captured the city of Phnom Penh Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge flee over the border to Thailand.

  • peace treaty

    Cambodia signs a peace treaty with France

  • The end of Pol Pot

    Pol Pot​ is sentenced to life in prison and fled to the jungle

  • death of pol pot

    Pol Pot died in his sleep due to a heart attack

  • first bridge

    the first river bridge over the Mekong linking east and west Cambodia

  • Genocide threatens

    Riots threaten to cause genocide

  • Dead Activist

    An activist Chut Wutty is shot dead while traveling​ in a threatened forest region in the south-west

  • Open Boarders

    Cambodia and Thailand withdraw their troops from the border area which aims to halt outbreaks of armed conflict in recent years.

  • Rigged Leader

    Mass protests in Phnom Penh over contested election results when Hun Sen lied about results and remained the ​leader

  • Police riots

    There was a two week time where people camped in Phnom Penh

  • Coming Home

    Many Cambodian people worked in Thailand until they threatened to remove illegal immigrants​

  • Three Decades

    Prime Minister Hun Sen celebrates 30 years in power

  • new activist leader

    Human rights activist Kem Sokha is appointed as the new leader of CNRP

  • Treason

    Leader Kem Sokha is charged with treason