Original sentence: Between March and June 1970, the North Vietnamese moved many of its military installations further inside Cambodia to protect them from U.The Cambodian coup of March 18, 1970 put a pro-American, anti-Vietnamese government in power and ended Cambodia's neutrality in the Vietnam War.The Cambodian government hastened to expand its army to combat the North Vietnamese and the growing threat of the Khmer Rouge.The North Vietnamese Army (PAVN) was now threatened by a newly-unfriendly Cambodian government on the west and the United States and South Vietnamese forces in Vietnam to their east.The North Vietnamese turned over some of their conquests and provided other assistance to the Khmer Rouge, thus empowering what was at the time a small guerilla movement.The conflict was part of the Second Indochina War (1959–1975) which also consumed the neighboring Kingdom of Laos, South Vietnam, and North Vietnam individually referred to as the Laotian Civil War and the Vietnam War respectively.incursions, capturing most of the northeastern third of the country in engagements with the Cambodian army
Edited sentence: The conflict, although a civil war, was considered to be part of the Second Indochina War (1959–1975), that also consumed the neighboring Kingdom of Laos, South Vietnam, and North Vietnam individually referred to as the Laotian Civil War and the Vietnam War respectively.Then following the Cambodian coup of 1970, the North Vietnamese Army's attempt to overrun the entire country in March–April 1970 plunged Cambodia into civil war