Vietnam Cambodia War (1978-1989)

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Vietnam-Cambodia War

The Vietnamese-Cambodian War was a decade-long conflict between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Democratic Kampuchea (more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge) that began on December 21, 1978 when Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia and ended on September 26, 1989 when the last Vietnamese troops withdrew from Cambodia.

Vietnam-Cambodia War: Timeline

1930 – The Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) is formed, which soon reorganizes as the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) to include membership to Cambodian and Laotian communists

1951 – The ICP splits into three nationalist organizations for Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos (Workers Party of Vietnam, Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party (KPRP), and Neo Lao Issara)

World War II (1941-1945) – In Vietnam, the Viet Minh (League for the Independence of Vietnam), a Vietnamese militia, wages a guerilla war against the occupying Japanese forces

After World War II - The Viet Minh fights an independence war against the returning French colonial forces (First Indochina War)

1954 – The Geneva Accords ends French colonial rule and grants the independences of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos

1955 - The Second Indochina War breaks out (which consists of three interrelated wars: Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, and Laotian Civil War), and is a proxy war in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union

April 1975 - North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam (Vietnam War); in July 1976, Vietnam is reunified as one country

April 1975 - Cambodian communists (Khmer Rouge) led by Pol Pot overthrow the U.S.-backed regime, ending the Cambodian Civil War

December 1975 - Laotian communists emerge victorious in December 1975 in the Laotian Civil War

May 1975 - Just one month after Cambodia and Vietnam had won their revolutions, small-scale fighting begins along their common border; Khmer forces seize Vietnam’s Phu Quoc and Tho Chu islands; the Vietnamese recapture these islands and retaliate by invading Koh Wai

August 1975 –Vietnamese forces withdraw from Koh Wai

1976 – A period of improved Cambodia-Vietnam relations; Border fighting eases, Cambodia calls for Vietnam’s membership to the UN, Vietnam downplays reports of widespread human rights violations in Cambodia, and commercial flights between Hanoi and Phnom Penh open in September 1976.

May 1976 - Cambodian and Vietnamese negotiators meet to resolve their disputed maritime border along the Brévié Line, a French colonial-era demarcation, but talks break down

September 1977 - Khmer forces invade Vietnam’s Tay Ninh Province

October 1977 - Vietnamese forces recapture Chau Doc and Tay Ninh

January 1978 - Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia’s Svay Rieng Province but later withdraw

June 1978 - Vietnam prepares to invade Cambodia

November 1978 - Vietnamese forces are massed along the southwestern border

December 25, 1978 – Vietnamese forces launch a full-scale invasion of Cambodia

January 7, 1979 – Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh; Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat to western Cambodia near the Thai border to wage a guerilla war

January 10, 1979 – A new Cambodia government, the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK), takes over administration of the country

February 1979 - The PRK and Vietnam sign a treaty that formalizes the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia

October 1979 – The Khmer People’s National Liberation Front (KPNLF) is formed, which is a guerilla militia opposed to the PRK and Vietnamese occupation

March 1981 – The National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia (FUNCINPEC) is formed, which is a guerilla militia also opposed to the PRK and Vietnamese occupation

June 1982 - The Khmer Rouge, KPNLF and FUNCINPEC form the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) with Prince Sihanouk as President

1980 to 1987 - Vietnamese forces launch annual dry-season offensives (against the Khmer Rouge, KPNLF, and FUNCINPEC) along the Thai border. Vietnamese forces also sometimes enter Thailand to pursue the guerillas, leading to armed clashes with Thai forces; the Vietnamese offensives are fiercest in 1984 to 1985, when most of the rebel camps are destroyed; however, the war eventually degrades into a costly war of attrition with no end in sight

1991 - The Soviet Union collapses, ending ended economic support to its socialist clients around the world; Vietnam and Cambodia are severely affected by the loss of Soviet aid

1986 - Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia, which is completed in 1989

[avencolar]

Since Thailand provided weapons to the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam attacked the Khmer rebels into Thailand, fighting between Thai and Vietnamese forces was unavoidable. Vietnam even warned Thailand not to intervene with threats of facing “consequences”. Vietnamese forces used artillery, rockets, and tanks and APC to attack the Khmer Rouge, forcing the Khmer Rouge to retreat into Thailand. Artillery exchanges landed sometimes up to 8 kilometers inside each Thailand and Cambodia. Vietnamese forces penetrated into the border areas of Thailand sometimes up to one kilometer inside and capturing Thai border villages and sometimes also in at least one instance setting up a permanent base on a hill inside Thailand. 1985-1986 was the period where Thai and Vietnamese forces engaged in many armed clashes.

[torrentialrage]

Thanks for filling in this blank spot in my knowledge of history.

[Niperarg]

The Khmer Rouge was not only xenophobic against Vietnamese ethnic minority but also against Chams, Chinese, Laotians; it expelled the remaining 200, 000 ethnic Vietnamese from the country, ; Lon Nol regime already deported 300, 000 ethnic Vietnamese before

[marvinacklin]

Awful story, the US backed the Khmer Rouge. Shame!

[boperu]

Pol Pot said that only two million Cambodian soldiers could defeat Vietnam and eliminate its population of fifty million people🤣🤣🤣And he killed 2 million of his people in the genocide. crazy

[BinhLe-bzeu]

1979 China Vietnam War was China use Vietnam to gain economic relationship with United State and their allies. Why today China Communist Leader, Deng Xiaoping is consider to be mastermind to China economic success. Deng Xiaoping knew America resent Vietnam for their defeat in the Vietnam War. China also knew that Pol Pot and his Cambodia Khmer Rouge armies also hated the Vietnamese. In 1977, Deng Xiaping sent 15, 000 Chinese military advisor into Cambodia helping Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge Armies perform border raid attack into Vietnam. Knowlingly this would provoke the Vietnamese government to retaliate against Cambodia. Which it did happen after the Vietnamese government ask the Soviet Government for ther support helping Vietnam against Pol Pot and his Communst Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. When the Soviet Union government agreed to support Vietnamese against Pol Pot and his Communist Khmer Rouge Armies. On December 25, 1978, the Vietnamese armies began their attack against against Pol Pot and his Communist Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. This just what Deng Xiaping wanted. So he can go to the US government and condem Vietnam invasion Cambodia when he was the mastermind of Cambodia Vietnam War. Just to show United State Democrat President Jimmy Carter that China will punish Vietnam for the invasion. On Februrary 17, 1979, 200 thousands Chinese troops cross into Northern Vietnam and began their attack. But the Vietnamese armies were able to hold and push back the Chinese armies. The China Vietnam War continue on and in 1980 US government began open relationship, trade, and business to China. Transformer China into advance economic and military Superpower country in the World. What Ding Xiaoping had hopeful for China.

[kaleidoscope]

this video miss out on the part where Lon Nol overthrew Sihanuk government and had the US bombed his country in an attempt to eliminate his political communist rivals. Pol Pot used the civil wars to raise his influnce among the Cambodian communist party, swell their ranks with his supporters and over took Lon Nol.

[PopsKrispy-phde]

78 79. 89 (👈 79 echoes 5 Continents

[muhammadnoorbinrohani]

IndoChina Vietnam 🇻🇳, Laos 🇱🇦 & Cambodia 🇰🇭.

[theremapping]

I've studied this war for over a year now, and I must say that this really isn't all that impressive and is quite poorly made accuracy wise.