Pol Pot Questions
Pol Pot Questions
Pol Pot Questions
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<strong>Pol</strong> <strong>Pot</strong><br />
Architect of Genocide<br />
Name:<br />
Directions: Please read <strong>Pol</strong> <strong>Pot</strong>: Architect of Genocide and answer the questions.<br />
1. Who was <strong>Pol</strong> <strong>Pot</strong>?<br />
2. What did <strong>Pol</strong> <strong>Pot</strong> mean when he felt “like a dark monkey from the mountains?<br />
3. How did his education in Paris, France influence his political beliefs? What did<br />
Cambodia have to do in order to achieve a pure Communist state? Who<br />
sponsored this?<br />
4. What European country controlled Cambodia? Who was the monarch? The<br />
President?<br />
5. What were his heavily armed cadres know as?<br />
6. Why did it eventually become so easy for <strong>Pol</strong> <strong>Pot</strong> to take Cambodia?
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7. What was the name of the Communist Party of Cambodia?<br />
8. Briefly explain how <strong>Pol</strong> <strong>Pot</strong> initially carried out his regime’s revolution?<br />
9. What was the most prominent Western edifice in Cambodia?<br />
10. What was the significance of Year Zero?<br />
11. Why did he want to evacuate Phnom Penh?<br />
12. What was the Khmer Rouge Slogan? What did it mean?<br />
13. What were the three categories that he divided the Cambodian population into?<br />
Describe them?<br />
14. What were young children between age of 6 and 12 encouraged to do?
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15. What religion dominated Cambodia prior to <strong>Pol</strong> <strong>Pot</strong>’s reign? Why was it ironic<br />
that <strong>Pol</strong> <strong>Pot</strong> headed Democratic Kampuchea?<br />
16. What were the two basic possessions Cambodians could carry?<br />
17. What was the staple food in Southeast Asia? Was there enough to feed the<br />
population? Why?<br />
18. Briefly describe the phrase “to be turned into a coconut.”<br />
19. Why did the world (or the United Nations) not intervene in Cambodia or why did<br />
the world not know what was going on?<br />
20. What happened to two journalists who visited Cambodia and interviewed <strong>Pol</strong><br />
<strong>Pot</strong>?<br />
21. What was S-21? What was Cheung EK? How many killed? How many survived?
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22. What happened to a Cambodian who looked or spoke to a Kampuchea<br />
Vietnamese? How about a man who married a Kampuchea Vietnamese?<br />
23. Why was the word blood in the National Anthem of Democratic Kampuchea<br />
mentioned so many times?<br />
24. What was <strong>Pol</strong> <strong>Pot</strong>’s undoing?<br />
25. What happened to <strong>Pol</strong> <strong>Pot</strong>? Who replaced him?<br />
Extra Credit: What was the conspiracy behind his death?
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