Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution
A plan to industrialize China, created by Mao Zedong, which was mostly agricultural at the time, in the 1950s resulted in a famine and shrank the economy.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The city that contains Tiananmen Square.
What is Beijing, China?
The main event that got the US involved in war with Japan.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
The type of government that South Korea currently has.
What is a democratic, capitalist, progressive government?
The leader of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Areas where people worked and lived together in groups on large farms/factories.
What are communes?
What Chinese students protested for in Tiananmen Square.
What are democracy and human rights?
The country that helped rebuild Japan after WWII.
What is the United States?
The original (old) border between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
The current government of Vietnam.
What is a communist, democratic government?
A group of students who quit school and fought any anti-communist citizens.
What is the Red Guard?
The leader who ordered the Chinese military to open fire on protestors that refused to leave Tiananmen Square.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
The general who wrote Japan’s new constitution, which declared Japan was a democratic constitutional monarchy.
Who was General Douglas MacArthur?
The original leader of North Korea who ordered the army to invade South Korea.
Who was Kim Il Sung?
The effect of the Vietnam War when it ended in 1975.
What is communist North Vietnam taking over capitalist South Vietnam and forming one country?
A book that citizens had to memorize, read, and carry with them at all times.
What is the Red Book?
The effect of the Tiananmen Square Massacre on the Chinese government and their policies. This effect was mostly caused by international pressure.
What are improved human rights?
The way that Japan’s military potential was reduced.
What is closing weapon factories and disbanding the military?
The first president of South Korea who the US pushed to run for president.
Who was Syngman Rhee?
The US provided these to South Vietnam.
What is funding, military support, and aid?
These are the four traditional characteristics of China, called the Four Olds, that were removed during the cultural revolution, which started in 1966.
What are old customs, old cultures, old habits, and old ideas?
The year that the Tiananmen Square Massacre occurred.
When was 1989?
The year that Japan became a fully sovereign nation and the US started leaving Japan.
When was 1952?
The outcome of the Korean War.
What is a similar division, roughly at the 38th parallel, where North Korea is autocratic and communist, while South Korea remains democratic and capitalist?
The year that the US got involved in the Vietnam war by bombing North Vietnam.
When was 1965?