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Two reported attacks on U.S. destroyers leading Lydon B. Johnson to increase U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. -
A sustained U.S. air campaign against North Vietnamese intending to weaken Viet Cong. -
The first major engagement of the Vietnam War. -
A series of coordinated surprise attacks for the North Vietnamese, during the Tet holiday. -
President Richard Nixon's strategy to end U.S. involvement by withdrawing American troops but increasing military and financial aid. -
When an Ohio National Guardsmen fired into a crowed of anti-Vietnam War protesters killing 4 students. -
The papers revealed the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of it's actions in the Vietnam War, which was not reported to the mainstream media. -
The officially ending of U.S. military in South Vietnam leading it to be conquered by North Vietnam soon after. -
The regime declared this radical policy to create an agrarian, classless, and communist society. It abolished money, private property, and religion, and forced all citizens to work the land. -
To North Vietnamese forces capturing Saigon it leads to South Vietnam to surrender -
The Khmer Rouge captured Cambodia's capital, ending the civil war an beginning its brutal rule. Also forcing 2.5 million residents into the countryside to begin a new life in rural collectives. -
A former high school in
Phnom Pehn was converted into the Security Prison 21 (S-21), a notorious interrogation and torture center. -
Tensions escalated between the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam, leading to a series of cross-border attacks. In April 1978, a major Khmer Rouge incursion into Vietnam, including the Ba Chuc massacre of over 3,000 Vietnamese civilians, led Vietnam to decide that the pol Pot regime must be overthrown. -
In response to continued attacks, 150,000 Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia. They captured Phnom Pehn in just two weeks, putting an end to the Khmer Rouge's brutal regime. -
The earlier invasion aimed at North Vietnamese supply lines. -
Under the Khmer Rouge, citizens were subjected to brutal forced labor in rural work camps for up to 12 hours a day with minimal food. This mismanagement of the country led to widespread starvation and disease. -
The regime systematically targeted anyone considered an "enemy of the state". Thousands were killed for wearing glasses, a symbol of intellectualism. -
At sites like Choeung Ek, just outside Phnom pehn, prisoners from S-21 and other centers were systematically executed and buried in mass graves. -
The Vietnamese installed anew goverment, but the Khmer Rouge retreated to the jungles and continued fighting. Pol Pot died in 1998 while under house arrest by his former comrades, never facing international justice for his crimes. -
The Extaordinary Chambers in the Courts of the Cambodia, a un-backed tribunal, was established to prosecute senior Khmer Rouge leaders.