THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Destroy the Cambodian Army
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To cut a route to the sea
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To destroy VC bases and cut the Ho Chi Minh trail
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It was a mistake, it was a patrol that got out of hand
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Detailed explanation-1: -On April 30th of 1970, President Richard Nixon declared to a television audience that the American military troops, accompanied by the South Vietnamese People’s Army, were to invade Cambodia. The invasion was under the pretext of disrupting the North Vietnamese supply lines.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nixon believed North Vietnam was transporting troops and supplies through neighboring Cambodia into South Vietnam. He hoped that bombing supply routes in Cambodia would weaken the United States’ enemies. The bombing of Cambodia lasted until August 1973.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vietnam launched an invasion of Cambodia in late December 1978 to remove Pol Pot. Two million Cambodians had died at the hands of his Khmer Rouge regime and Pol Pot’s troops had conducted bloody cross-border raids into Vietnam, Cambodia’s historic enemy, massacring civilians and torching villages.
Detailed explanation-4: -March 1969-May 1970: In a series of secret bombings known as “Operation Menu, ” U.S. B-52 bombers target suspected communist base camps and supply zones in Cambodia.