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The Third Indochina War: Conflict between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972–79. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-39058-3. Khoo, Nicholas (2011). Collateral Damage: Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-15078-1. Kiyono, Yoshiyuki et al. (2010).
Map of the Cambodia–Vietnam border. The Cambodia–Vietnam border is the international border between the territory of Cambodia and Vietnam.The border is 1,158 km (720 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with Laos in the north to Gulf of Thailand in the south.
After the fall of the Khmer Rouge and the conflict with Vietnam, Cambodia's economic situation was disastrous, with the plundering of the country's resources by Vietnamese troops only making matters worse. During the first six months of 1979, approximately 80,000 people fled from Cambodia to reach Thailand.
Various names have been applied and have shifted over time, though Vietnam War is the most commonly used title in English. It has been called the Second Indochina War since it spread to Laos and Cambodia, [62] the Vietnam Conflict, [63] [64] and Nam (colloquially 'Nam). In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (lit.
The conflict began in 1975 and lasted until the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on 23 October 1991, in which several wars were fought: The Cambodian–Vietnamese War began when Vietnam invaded Cambodia and deposed the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. The war lasted from 1 May 1975 to 23 October 1991. Cambodia's constitutional monarchy was then ...
Anti-Vietnamese sentiment due to Vietnam's conquest of previously Cambodian lands, giving the Vietnamese a privileged status and encouragement of Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia during French colonial rule, and the occupation of Cambodia after the ousting of the Khmer Rouge has led to anti-Vietnamese feelings against ethnic Vietnamese in ...
The North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) was involved to protect its bases in eastern Cambodia, which were crucial to its military effort in South Vietnam. This presence was initially tolerated by Prince Sihanouk , the Cambodian head of state, but domestic resistance combined with China and North Vietnam aiding the anti-government ...
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), which had chosen to ally with the USSR, justified incursions into neighbouring Laos and Cambodia during the Second Indochinese War by reference to the international nature of communist revolution, where "Indochina is a single strategic unit, a single battlefield" and the Vietnam People's Army ...