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Japan
China
Asian Tigers
Korea
Vocabulary
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The American general who
wrote a Constitution for
Japan after WWII.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
The parliament or legislative
assembly of Japan.
What is the Diet?
This type of political and
social system of land for
service was finally replaced
in Japan after WWII.
What was feudalism?
This was the political party
that dominated Japanese
politics after WWII.
What is the Liberal Democratic
Party or the LDP ?
Two reasons why Japan was
successful economically
after WWII and the
devastation of the two
atomic
bombs.
What was educated workers,
homogenous society,
modern factories,
no money for defense ?
This was the type of
government practiced
by Mao Zedong in
China after WWII.
What was a Totalitarian
Communist Dictatorship?
This was Mao Zedong’s
economic program to
move China forward in
agriculture and
industrial output.
What was the Great Leap
Forward? ( really backwards)
This was Mao Zedong’s
backlash at intellectuals
and the new middle class
of China.
What was the Cultural
Revolution? ( Dressed up all the
smart people in dunce caps)
This was the American
president who visited
China in 1972.
Who was Nixon?
This event marked an end
to the democracy
movement in China in
1989.
What was the massacre at
Tiananmen Square?
China considers both of
these islands to be part of
Communist China.
What are Hong King ( now part of
China) and Taiwan or Formosa?
He was the leader of
Taiwan after WWII.
Who was Jiang Jieshi or
Chiang Kai Shek?
This is the country that
dominated the island of
Taiwan until after 1945.
What was Japan and now
China is trying?
This is one of the main
service industries in
Hong Kong and a reason
for the modern skyline.
What is banking or financial
services?
This is the smallest of Asian
Tigers and sits at the tip of
the Malay Peninsula.
What is Singapore?
This the line of latitude
that divides North and
South Korea.
What is the
th
38
Parallel?
He was the American
General who organized and
led the brilliant landing at
Inchon and defeated the
North Koreans.
Who was Gen. Douglas
MacArthur?
He was the dictator of South
Korea after WWII.
Who was Syngman Rhee?
He became the dictator of
North Korea after his father
Kim Il Sung died.
Who is Kim Jung Il?( He has
nuclear weapons and is crazy
enough to use them)
These are the three Asian
giants that border North and
South Korea.
What is Russia, Japan, and
China?
This sign of a healthy
economy jumped in Japan
between 1950 and 1975 to
rival the United States.
What is the Gross Domestic
Product or sometimes the Gross National Product?
This is the theory that
dominated American foreign
policy after WWII and stated
that if one country becomes
communist others will
follow.
What was the Domino
Theory?
These were the communist
guerillas in Cambodia led by
the ruthless Pol Pot.
Who were the Khmer Rouge?
This was the written bible
for many young Chinese
communists during the
Cultural Revolution.
What was Chairman Mao’s
Little Red Book?
This was the economic
recovery program introduced
by Deng Xiaoping which
called for improvements in
agriculture, industry, science,
and defense.
What were the
Four Modernizations?
Vietnam
The
Philippines
Cambodia/
/Laos
Developing Asian
Nations
The Pacific Rim
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This was the battle where the
French were defeated and
forced to leave Vietnam.
What was the Battle of
Dien Bien Phu?
He was the leader of
Vietnamese resistance to
colonial rule and the
communist leader of North
Vietnam.
What was Ho Chi Minh?
This was the agreement that
divided Vietnam into North
And South Vietnam in 1954.
What were the Geneva Accords?
He was the Catholic
President of South Vietnam,
supported by the United
States.
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
They were the Vietnamese
refugees who fled the harsh
Communist government of
Vietnam.
Who were the Boat People?
This was the name for the
Communist land reformers
in the Philippines.
Who were the Huk?
He became the Dictator of
the Philippines from 1965
until 1986.
Who was Ferdinand Marcos?
She took over the democratic
movement in the Philippines
after her husband’s murder
to become the first female
president.
Who was Corazon Aquino?
This was a U.S. military base
on the Philippines before the
withdrawal of military
troops.
Clark Air Base or Subic Bay Naval Base.
The Moro National
Liberation Front want
Mindanao to become this
kind of independent religious
state.
What is Islamic?
This was the supply line that
went through Cambodia and
supplied the Vietcong in
South Vietnam during the
war.
What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
These were the communist
guerillas in Cambodia.
Who were the Khmer Rouge?
He was the ruthless leader of
the Khmer Rouge who
executed more than a million
people, a third of the
population.
Who was Pol Pot?
These were the communist
guerillas who seized power
in Laos.
Who were the Pathet Lao?
This country resisted a
communist take over while
remaining a strong ally of
the U.S. and the ousted right
wing governments of
Cambodia and Laos.
What was Thailand?
This developing nation was
renamed “ the People’s
Country” I suppose because
it was a country and it had
people. ( not a creative group
of military thugs)
What was from Burma to
Now, Myanmar?
This female Nobel Peace
Prize recipient was recently
released from jail in
Myanmar.
Who was Aung San Suu Kyi?
This developing nation is the
fourth most populous,
largely Islamic, and divided
into 13,000 islands.
What is Indonesia?
This island in Indonesia with
a predominate Roman
Catholic/Portuguese heritage
wants independence.
What is East Timor on the island
of Timor? Finally obtained
in 1999 and a republic in 2002
This is the organization
formed by Singapore,
Malaysia, Thailand, the
Philippines, Indonesia and
Brunei.
What is ASEAN or the
Association of South East
Asian Nations in 1967 ?
This is the geological feature
that dominates many of the
Pacific Rim countries giving
it the nickname “Ring of
Fire”
What are volcanoes?
These three countries
dominate the Pacific Rim
st
economy in the new 21
century.
What are China, Japan, and the
United States? [ you could
add Canada as well ]
These are the four continents
that form the Pacific Rim.
What is Asia, North America,
South America and Australia or Oceana?
These are the five most
populous nations along the
Pacific Rim.
What are China, Russia,
Indonesia, Japan, and the US?
These are the two most
popular tourist spots along
the Pacific Rim.
What are Fiji and French
Polynesia or Tahiti?