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  2. Timeline of Cambodian history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Cambodian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Cambodia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Cambodia. See also the list of kings of Cambodia

  3. Cambodian campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Cambodian campaign (also known as the Cambodian incursion and the Cambodian liberation) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia in mid-1970 by South Vietnam and the United States as an expansion of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War.

  4. Cambodian conflict (1979–1998) - Wikipedia

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    The United States and the United Kingdom also imposed an embargo on Cambodia, resulting in serious consequences for the economy. [ 17 ] The Thais, who welcomed all refugees, opened the Khao I Dang camp in Sa Kaeo province on November 19, 1979, about ten kilometers from Cambodia where 150,000 people would soon arrive.

  5. List of invasions - Wikipedia

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    An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...

  6. Cambodian humanitarian crisis - Wikipedia

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    In 1979, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and overthrew the Khmer Rouge. Vietnam and the Cambodian government it created ruled the country for the next 12 years. The Khmer Rouge and other groups fought a guerrilla war against the Vietnamese occupiers and the Cambodian government.

  7. Cambodian Civil War - Wikipedia

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    He did so "in order to play a new card, since the Asian communists are already attacking us before the end of the Vietnam War." [ 32 ] Besides, PAVN and the Viet Cong would make very convenient scapegoats for Cambodia's ills, much more so than the minuscule Khmer Rouge, and ridding Cambodia of their presence would solve many problems ...

  8. Third Indochina War - Wikipedia

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    Vietnam counterattacked and in December 1978, NVA troops invaded Cambodia, reaching Phnom Penh in January 1979 and arriving at the Thai border in spring 1979. [ 20 ] [ 5 ] However, as China, the U.S. and the majority of the international community opposed the Vietnamese campaign, the remaining Khmer Rouge managed to permanently settle in the ...

  9. Military history of Cambodia - Wikipedia

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    In 1955, the United States and Cambodia signed an agreement providing for security assistance. In addition to a Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) and military budget support, FARK received US supplies and equipment worth approximately US$83.7 million for eight years until the assistance program was discontinued at Sihanouk's request in ...