HIST 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Truman Doctrine, Pol Pot, Korean War
22 Nov 2016
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The deliberate and systematic extermination of an ethnic or national group. French indo-china: cambodia as a french territory. Truman was concerned with rebuilding europe post wwii creating a wall against communism: the truman doctrine. Domino effect (1970) king sihanouk ousted in a coupe: related to the vietnam and related wars. Khmer rouge: cambodian communists, guerrilla movement inside cambodia. April 1975: us pulled out of vietnam, communist rule by the khmer rouge in cambodia. Killings carried out by regular people: everything in the past is incompatible and must be destroyed; to psychologically reconstruct the individual members of society. Stripping away through terror and other means the traditions that guided an individuals life and implement new tradition: directed by 40 year old men educated in france. Within a week" the capitol was emptied: chinese shops targeted first, then people were killed, hospitals emptied by noon, then books and libraries, documents, banks, transport, electricity and water, moved into regional cities.
