The Americans entered the Vietnam War with the sole intention to prevent the spread of communism or as they liked to call it, “the domino theory”. Through their actions to prevent this so called spread the Americans became very unpopular and did quite the opposite as most citizens fell to communism just to spite the Americans. Such actions include; the secret bombing of Cambodia in operation ‘Menu’ and invasions of both Cambodia and Laos.
In 1969, newly elected President Richard M. Nixon, aiming to achieve "peace with honor" in Vietnam, began to put his "Vietnamization" policy into place, which basically involved removing the number of American military soldiers in the country and transferring combat roles to the South Vietnamese. Military pla
At the same times as all this, President Nixon resumed the secret bombing of North Vietnam and launched B-52 bombing raids over Cambodia, intending to wipe out NLF and North Vietnamese base camps along the border. The intensive secret bombing, code-named Operation ‘Menu’, lasted for four years and was intentionally kept secret from those of public. The bombing then led to the collapse of their agricultural system and induced a famine in which hundreds of thousands died from starvation. In fact, many of the deaths after 1975 that are attributed to the Khmer Rouge were actually caused by starvation from the famine induced by U.S. bombing before 1975. As the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, a U.S. Agency for International Development report estimated t
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