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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.
The United States and Cambodia, 1870-1969: from curiosity to confrontation (Routledge, 2004) online. Clymer, Kenton J. The United States and Cambodia, 1969-2000: a troubled relationship (Psychology Press, 2004) online. Haas, Michael. Cambodia, Pol Pot, and the United States: The Faustian Pact (ABC-CLIO, 1991) online. Lamb, Christopher J.
The United States (U.S.) voted for the Khmer Rouge and the Khmer Rouge-dominated Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) to retain Cambodia's United Nations (UN) seat until as late as 1993, long after the Khmer Rouge had been mostly deposed by Vietnam during the 1979 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and ruled just a small part of the country.
On 30 April 1970, the United States invaded Cambodia, which Nixon announced in a television address that Kissinger contemptuously called "vintage Nixon" because of his overblown rhetoric. [42] At the time, Nixon was seen as recklessly escalating the war, and in early May 1970, the largest protests ever against the Vietnam War took place. [45]
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 ...
In December 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and overthrew the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, ending the Cambodian genocide and installing a new government led by Khmer Rouge defectors. [18] The Reagan administration authorized the provision of aid to a coalition called the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF), [ 19 ] run by Son Sann ...
Salvador Allende had been viewed as a threat to US hegemony in South America long before he was elected as Chilean president in 1970, at a time when much of the continent was ruled by military ...
The United States and the United Kingdom also imposed an embargo on Cambodia, resulting in serious consequences for the economy. [ 18 ] 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.