Activity 1 - Which events should we revise?

  1. Mind-Map - Create a concept-map using Padlet, Mindmup or any other similar mind-mapping tool (or create a sketchnote by hand!). In the middle write ‘The Cambodian Civil War 1968-75’.
  2. Summarise - Now fill in your mind-map with key historical information and facts about the main events of the unit. Review your notes and summarise using the following headings and events:
    1. Causes - Domestic divisions (Nationalists, Royalists, Socialists); Economic Inequality (Feudal society, poor peasant class); Impact of Vietnam War (PAVN base areas, Support for KR); Khmer Rouge Ideology/Policies (WPK, Tribal Support, Role of Pol Pot, Support of Sihanouk); Impact of US Bombing (Operation Menu, Freedom Deal, Support for FARK/Lon Nol), Samlaut Uprising 1967, Military Coup 1970
    2. Course - Tactics/Strategy; Force Structure; Foreign Support; Key Leaders; Battles - Samlaut Uprising (1967); Operation Menu (1969); Campaign X (1970); US Cambodian Campaign (1970); Operation Freedom Deal (1970); Operation Chenla I (1970); Operation Chenla II (1971); Fall of Phnom Penh (1975).
    3. Resolution - Military factors (Weaknesses of FANK vs GRUNK/KR, KR Psychological Warfare); Political factors (KR Ideology, Sihanouk Support; KR Policies, Indoctrination); Foreign Support (PRC/USSR/PAVN for KR, US withdrawal); Economic factors (Failing economy, infrastructure destroyed, KR control of transport/rivers)
    4. Impact - Nature and Policies of KR Regime (Killing fields, Year Zero, Collectivisation); Vietnamese Invasion (1978 Invasion, Reasons, Impact); Civil War (PRK led by Heng Samrin vs. KR, Cold War Tensions); Final Resolution (UN Peace Talks, UN Peacekeeping, Coalition Government).
  3. Revise - Use your mind maps to help you revise the historical content for your upcoming assessment and final exams. Make sure you store a copy with your other revision materials.

Activity 2 - What was our inquiry?

  1. Recall - Examine the statement of inquiry for this unit again and consider how it applies to what you’ve studied:
    1. Global conflicts like the Cold War can shape and change the development of smaller nations through the spread of revolutionary ideas
  2. Analyse - With a partner, discuss how this statement of inquiry could be applied to the Cambodian Civil War. Consider the following questions:
    1. Connect - How is the statement of inquiry connected to what you have studied?
    2. Extend - Does the statement of inquiry extend your thinking about the Cambodian Civil War in any way?
    3. Challenge - What is challenging or confusing about the statement of inquiry? 
  3. Discuss - Does the statement of inquiry apply to the Cambodian Civil War? What else might it also apply to?
  4. Evaluate - The key historical concept for this unit was change. Apply it to Cambodia during the Cold War between 1945-1991. When analysing historical change, we can break it down into three categories:
    1. Type - what type of change occurred? e.g. Social, economic, cultural, political, personal…
    2. Speed - what pace of change? Did it vary? How? Why? e.g. Fast, sudden, rapid, gradual, steady, slow…
    3. Extent - who benefited from change? e.g. Large, small, unequal, long-lasting, short-term…
  5. Reflect - Consider all the changes you have studied in Cambodia during the Cold War and discuss the following:
    1. Does change always mean progress?
    2. When is change the same/not the same as progress?
    3. Think about ‘progress for whom?’ 

Activity 3 - How might we be assessed?

  1. Essay Plan - Try practicing for your end of unit review by essay planning. Use this essay mark-scheme to help:
    1. Discuss the domestic impact of the Khmer Rouge’s regime in Cambodia - Nov 2019
    2. Discuss the reasons for the rise and fall of Pol Pot - Nov 2018
    3. “Sihanouk was mainly responsible for the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.” Discuss - Nov 2017
    4. To what extent was the Vietnam War responsible for the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia? - Specimen

Further Reading for Revision

OBLIGATORY READING
  1. Sanders, V. (2015). Access to History: The Cold War in Asia 1945-93
RECOMMENDED READING
  1. Conboy, K., & Bowra, K. (1989). Osprey Men-at-Arms Series: The War in Cambodia, 1970-75
  2. Tully, J. (2005). A Short History of Cambodia: From Empire to Survival
SUPPLEMENTAL READING
  1. Short, P. (2004). Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
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