CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE

• 1975-1979
• A communist group known as Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot seized control
• guided by beliefs that citizens had been tainted by exposure to outside ideas
• Persecuted the educated-doctors, lawyers, current/former military and police
• Christian, Buddhist, and Muslim citizens were also targeted

CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE

• Wanted to eliminate competition from society
• People were placed in living arrangements
• Re-educated to be taught commune lifestyle
• Those who refused were killed
• Divided into categories based on trust-couldn't move up

CAUSES OF CONFLICT

• April 1975 Khmer Rouge seized control&renamed Cambodia Democratic Kampuchea
• Civil war had existed in Cambodia since 1970 and during the Vietnam war, the US bombed much of
• the country and manipulated Cambodian politics to support the rise of pro-West Lon Nol as the leader
• The Khmer Rouge used the US' actions to recruit followers and as an excuse for the brutal policies
• They exercised while in power

WHO WAS IT BETWEEN?

• a Communist group known as the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot
• Cambodia

RESULTS

• the Khmer Rouge killed more than 1.7 million people over the 4 years
• The Khmer Rouge was removed when communist Vietnam invaded in January 1979
• They established a pro-Vietnamese regime in Cambodia
• Many survivors fled to refugee camps in Thailand
• of these survivors, many went on to immigrate to the United States

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ZULU BRITISH WARS

• In 1843 Britain succeeded the Boers as the rulers of Natal, which controlled Zululand, the neighbors of the Zulus
• In 1838 the Boers came into armed conflict with Zululand
• In 1843 the British took over Natal and Zululand
• in January 1878 British forces invaded Zululand to suppress Cetshwayo
• The British suffered grave defeats, where 1,300 British soldiers were killed or wounded

ZULU BRITISH WARS CONTINUED

• on march 29 the tide turned in the favor of the British
• at Ulundi the Zulus were forced to surrender
• In 1887 the British formally annexed Zululand
• in 1897 it became a part of Natal
• Natal joined the Union of South Africa in 1910

CAUSES OF CONFLICT

• King Mpande died and was succeeded by his son Cetshwayo
• Cetshwayo was determined to resist European domination in his territory
• Cetshwayo rejected the British demand that he disband his troops

WHO WAS IT BETWEEN?

• The British
• The boers
• The Zulus

RESULTS

• the Zulus were forced to surrender to the British
• In 1887 the British formally annexed Zululand
• in 1897 it became a part of Natal
• Natal joined the Union of South Africa in 1910
• It is currently one of the nine provinces of the Union of South Africa

FRENCH REVOLUTION

• began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• was a period of radical social and political upheaval

CAUSES OF CONFLICT

• Enlightenment ideals
• concepts of popular sovereignty
• inalienable rights
• The Third Estate wanted voting by head and not by status
• monarchies and churches

WHO WAS IT BETWEEN?

• French citizens
• Country's political landscape
• The Third Estate
• Napoleon Bonaparte

RESULTS

• the Revolution accelerated the rise of republics and democracies
• spread liberalism, nationalism, socialism and secularism
• increased the development of modern political ideologies
• some central documents expanded the area of human rights to include women and slaves
• the Declaration of the Rights of Man is one

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1977 MOSCOW BOMBINGS

• January 8, 1977
• series of three bombings in Moscow
• no one ever claimed responsibility for the bombing
• one went off in a train, one in a grocery store, another near a another grocery store

CAUSES OF CONFLICT

• Cold War
• Communist vs. everyone else
• Armenian nationalist

WHO WAS IT BETWEEN?

• members of an Armenian nationalist organization
• KGB
• citizens of Moscow

RESULTS

• killed seven people and 37 people were seriously injured
• suggestions that the bombings might have been arranged by the KGB itself to discredit
• the entire Soviet dissident movement. Sakharov attacked and threatened in many ways

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