POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
COLD WAR IN ASIA
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Laos
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China
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Cambodia
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Detailed explanation-1: -With support from rural Cambodians, North Vietnamese, and Chinese, Pol Pot was ultimately able to take control of the country in 1975.
Detailed explanation-2: -In April 1970, US and South Vietnamese ground forces entered eastern Cambodia to attack Communist sanctuaries there. The Vietnamese Communists, meanwhile, moved deeper into Cambodia and began seizing large sections of the countryside for the Khmer Rouge, who accepted their help despite historical distrust of Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cambodia was governed under a Vietnamese administration in Phnom Penh and termed a Vietnamese province.
Detailed explanation-4: -Pol Pot, original name Saloth Sar, (born May 19, 1925, Kompong Thom province, Cambodia-died April 15, 1998, near Anlong Veng, along the Cambodia-Thailand border), Khmer political leader who led the Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime (1975–79) in Cambodia that imposed severe hardships on the Cambodian people.