Pol Pot Research Paper

In this Essay I will describe what happened in Cambodia during the years of 1975-1979. There was a communist leader named Pol Pot that ruined the Cambodian government for four years. Before the years 1975-1979, Cambodia neighbored a country at war. That neighbor was Vietnam. Vietnam was in war fought between 1955-1975 by the North Vietnam—and the government of South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. After the war in Vietnam the U.S. invaded Cambodia trying to expel the North Vietnamese from the border encampments.
Bombing the North Vietnamese sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia the U.S. killed up to 150,000 Cambodian peasants. As a result of this the capital of Cambodia was the only safe place to be able to go to, Phnom Penh. As a Result to this Cambodia went into economic and military destabilization in Cambodia and turned Pol Pot …show more content…
Pol Pot’s family owned around 10 times the amount of the national average (about 50 acres), so you could consider them affluent. At age 9 in 1934 attended a Buddhist monastery for a year before attending a french catholic primary school. Later he attended school in Paris in 1949 through a scholarship. While attending school in Paris, he studied radio electronics and became interested with the concept of Marxism.
When Pol Pot came back to Cambodia however, they were revolting against French colonial rule. Later that year Cambodia officially gained independence. Pol Pot later became the leader of the Cambodian Communist Party. They were later forced to flee because of the wrath of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the leader of Cambodia, into the jungle. In there he formed an armed retaliation movement which later became known as the Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians). They carried out guerrilla wars against Sihanouk's

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