Cambodian Civil War
The Cambodian Civil War was a five-year war that lasted from 1970 to 1975 and took place in Cambodia. The Khmer Republic was allies with both South Vietnam and the United States and fought against the Khmer Rouge, who were allies with both North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. The war ended in 1975, with the Khmer Rouge coming out victorious.
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Cambodian Civil War Media
Meeting in Beijing: Mao Zedong (left), Prince Sihanouk (center), and Liu Shaoqi (right)
A memorial to the civil war in Siem Reap, Cambodia, with a rusted wreck of a Soviet-built T-54 main battle tank used during the war. Large numbers of T-54s were used by Cambodia during and after the bloody fighting of the conflict between 1970 and 1975, with many such wrecks (in various states of abandonment and disrepair) scattered all over the country today.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia visiting Communist Romania in 1972.
The final offensive against Phnom Penh in April 1975