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| 1925 | Birth |  |
| Kompong Birth of Pol Pot, son of a peasant family
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| 1946 | CCP | |
| Appointed Member of the Cambodian Communist Party
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| 1962 | Khmer Rouge | |
| Founds the guerrilla movement, Khmer Rouge
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| 1962 | Party Leader | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Cambodian Communist Party
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| 1963 | Khmer Rouge | |
| Feb At the WPK's second congress, Pol Pot is chosen to succeed Tou Samouth as the party's general secretary
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| Feb Pol Pot and loyal comrades from his Paris student days control the party center, edging out older veterans whom they considered excessively pro-Vietnamese
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| Feb Tou's allies, Nuon Chea and Keo Meas, are removed from the Central Committee and replaced by Son Sen and Vorn Vet
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| July Ratanakiri Pol Pot and most of the central committee leave Phnom Penh to establish an insurgent base in Ratanakiri Province in the northeast
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| 1965 | Khmer Rouge | |
| The region Pol Pot and others move to is inhabited by tribal minorities, the Khmer Loeu, whose rough treatment (including resettlement and forced assimilation) at the hands of the central government made them willing recruits for a guerrilla struggle
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| 1966 | Communist Party | |
| The party changes its name to the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)
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| 1966 | Khmer Rouge | |
| The party changes its name to the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)
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| 1967 | Khmer Rouge | |
| Several small-scale attempts at insurgency are made by the CPK but they have little success
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| 1968 | Khmer Rouge | |
| As the insurgency grows stronger, the party finally openly declares itself to be the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)
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| Khmer Rouge forces launch a national insurgency across Cambodia
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| 1973 | Khmer Rouge | |
| Many people in Cambodia who helped the Khmer Rouge against the Lon Nol government thought they were fighting for the restoration of Sihanouk
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| Sihanouk's popular support in rural Cambodia allows the Khmer Rouge to extend its power and influence to the point that by 1973 it exercises de facto control over the majority of Cambodian territory, although only a minority of its population
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| When the US Congress suspends aid to Cambodia in 1973, the Khmer Rouge makes sweeping gains in the country
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| 1975 | Angkar | |
| Phnom Penh Founds the Angkar to act as enforcer & executioner for the new regime
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| 1975 | Capture | |
| 17th April Phnom Penh The Khmer Rouge capture Phnom Penh
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| 1975 | Constitution | |
| Phnom Penh Establishes the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea
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| 1975 | Coup d'Etat | |
| Phnom Penh Successfully leads a coup in Cambodia
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| 1975 | Expulsion Foreigners | |
| Phnom Penh All foreigners are expelled from Kampuchea
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| 1975 | Khmer Rouge | |
| 17th April Phnom Penh The Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh
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| 1975 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Cambodia
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| 1975 | Secretary | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Khmer Rouge
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| 1975 | Siege of Phnom Penh | |
| 17th April Phnom Penh The Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh
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| 1977 | Diplomacy | |
| Phnom Penh Breaks off diplomatic relations with Hanoi
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| Phnom Penh Breaks off diplomatic relations with Vietnam
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| 1978 | Diplomacy | |
| Phnom Penh Diplomatic relations breakdown between Kampuchea & Vietnam
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| Dec Because of several years of border conflict and the flood of refugees fleeing Cambodia, relations between Cambodia and Vietnam collapse
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| 1978 | Invasion | |
| Dec Pol Pot, fearing a Vietnamese attack, orders a pre-emptive invasion of Vietnam
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| 1979 | Capture | |
| The Vietnamese forced out Pol Pot & withdrew from Cambodia 10 yrs later
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| 7th Jan Phnom Penh The Vietnamese capture Phnom Penh
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| 1979 | Capture of Phnom Penh | |
| 7th Jan Phnom Penh The Vietnamese invade Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh
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| 1979 | Exile | |
| The Vietnamese forced out Pol Pot & withdrew from Cambodia 10 yrs later
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| 1979 | Invasion | |
| Despite a traditional Cambodian fear of Vietnamese domination, defecting Khmer Rouge activists assisted the Vietnamese, and, with Vietnam's approval, become the core of the new puppet government
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| 1979 | Invasion of Kampuchea | |
| 7th Jan Phnom Penh The Vietnamese invade Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh
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| 1979 | Invasion of Vietnam | |
| 24th Dec Phnom Penh Vietnam invades Cambodia
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| 1979 | Khmer Rouge | |
| Despite a traditional Cambodian fear of Vietnamese domination, defecting Khmer Rouge activists assisted the Vietnamese, and, with Vietnam's approval, become the core of the new puppet government
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| 1979 | Massacre | |
| Charged with genocide by the Vietnamese, 3 million out of a 7 million population
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| 1979 | Siege of Phnom Penh | |
| 7th Jan Phnom Penh The Vietnamese capture Phnom Penh
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| 1979 | United Nations | |
| Despite a traditional Cambodian fear of Vietnamese domination, defecting Khmer Rouge activists assisted the Vietnamese, and, with Vietnam's approval, become the core of the new puppet government
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| Sep Pol Pot takes the UN seat as the legitimate representitive of Kampuchea
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| 1997 | Arrest | |
| Tried by the Khmer Rouge & placed under house arrest
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| 1997 | Trial | |
| Tried by the Khmer Rouge & placed under house arrest
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| 1998 | Death | |
| 15th April Death of Pol Pot
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