Cold War · SITE OF MEMORY ·
US bombing of Cambodia (1969–73)
On the Cold War map as “The bombing of Cambodia”
1969–73 — Operation Menu and its successors drop some 500,000 tons on neutral Cambodia’s border zones. Tens of thousands of civilians die; the countryside radicalizes. Remember.
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- Vietnam War (chapter 7 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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