Transcript East Asia & SE Asia - Rochester City School District

East Asia & SE Asia
Mongolia,
China, Japan,
Korea,
Vietnam,
Myanmar,
Thailand,
Laos,
Cambodia,
Malaysia,
Indonesia, &
the
Philippines
Mongolia
• Mongolia was a communist nation from 19211992 under the influence of the Soviet Union
• Became a democratic Parliamentary Republic in
1992
•Switch to a market
economy had a few
problems, high inflation
& food shortages
•Has good relations
with Russia, China,
North & South Korea,
Japan , & the USA
China
• Most populous nation
• Totalitarian Communist nation
• Currently allowing more capitalist ideas to
filter in
• 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising caused
another crack down
• Dilemma-How to become part of the
world’s market economy & maintain
totalitarian control?
China Today
• Showing off to the world
with the Beijing Olympics &
the Shanghai World Expo
• Has power because it is the
largest market in the world
• Also becoming one of the
top lenders in the world,
recently helped “bail out” the
US market
• Has a horrible human rights
record
North Korea
• Totalitarian Communist Regime
• Led by Kim Jong Un
• Has been in the news for claiming to have
nuclear weapons
• Arresting 2 US reporters & tried them as spies
• Sinking a South Korean naval ship at the end
of March 2010 in violation of the truce signed
in 1953 ending the Korean War
North Korea Today
South Korea
• The Republic of Korea was established on
August 15, 1945 after it was liberated from
Japan with the end of WWII
• Korea went from being one of the poorest
nations in the world immediately after WWII to
having one of the 20 largest economies in the
world
• The Asian Financial crisis of 1997-1998 forced
economic reforms that have protected them in
the recent economic downturn
South Korea Today
• South Korea has built a hi-tech
industrialized economy
• There has been some political issues
following the suicide of the former
President Roh Moo-Hyun in May 2009
• North Korea sank a South Korean naval
ship on March 26, 2010 killing 46 of the
104 sailors on board, they have taken the
issue to the U.N. Security Council
Vietnam
Images of Vietnam
Thailand
• Constitutional
Monarchy
• Has seen rapid
economic growth due
to increased tourism
Tsunami
• December 26, 2004 a
9.1-9.3 earthquake off
the coast of Sumatra
caused a devastating
tsunami
• Close to 230,000 people
died throughout the
Indian Ocean Basin, one
of the worst natural
disasters in recorded
history
Cambodia Cont’d
• Vietnamese
occupied from
1978-1988, civil war
ended in 1991
• Government
elections held in
1993 & 1998
• Pol Pot was
captured & tried in
1997, he died under
house arrest in
April 1998
•It is a constitutional
monarchy today
•Elections in July
2008 were peaceful
Malaysia
• Established in
1963 from
several
independent
states
• Home to
Singapore, the
busiest port in
the world
Philippines
• Former U.S. colony from the
Spanish American War
• Gained independence in 1946
• Ruled by dictator Ferdinand
Marcos from 1966-1986
• Democratic government
established in 1986 when Corazon
Aquino was elected president
• Has had relatively peaceful
transfers of power for the last 27
years