History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Geopolitics, Pol Pot, Cash Crop
21 Apr 2015
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Announcements: for each section on the exam (first world war, vietnam war, you are given 6 ids (answer 4, you are given 3 essay questions (answer 1, make sure you submit your essay on turn it in. The secret war in laos: pathet lao, the cia"s proxy: vang pao and the hmong, norodom sihanouk, the khmer rouge, toul sleng and the killing fields. Vietnam war"s impact on surrounding areas: the war wasn"t restricted to south vietnam it spilled over into laos and. Phouma: they controlled an area that was adjacent to the north vietnamese border, souvanna phouma and souphanouvong worked out a deal to form a coalition, souvanna phouma was the prime minister, and souphanouvong was his government finance minister. The cia"s proxy: vang pao and the hmong: the american government wasn"t comfortable with a neutralist government in. Laos (it was the place the u. s. had to consider to stop communism)
