China
The policy that limited urban families to one child, rural families could have two children
The United States supported this country in the Korean War
What is South Korea
A type of warfare used during the Vietnam war where a small group of fighters took on a less mobile, larger army. They commonly set traps, mines, and used firing squads.
What is guerrilla warfare
The partition of India created these two independent countries
India and Pakistan
Malaysia gained independence from this power, and they would create a government similar to their colonial ruler
What is Britain
A Chinese Communist program in the late 1960s to purge China of non-revolutionary tendencies that caused economic and social damage
What is the Cultural Revolution
The forced joining together of workers and property into collectives
What is collectivization
The theory that if one country falls to communism, the rest of them will eventually fall.
What is the domino theory
The type of government that many Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Myanmar, and Indonesia have been striving for
What is democracy
A Roman Catholic nun who founded a group that helped the urban poor in India
Who is Mother Theresa
The leader of Communist China, responsible for the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution in China
Who was Mao Zedong
The area that divides North and South Korea and which has no fighting taking place
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
The attack on United States naval ships by North Vietnam, and the desire to stop the spread of communism in Vietnam prompted this resolution.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A state in the Himalayas has caused tensions between India and Pakistan
What is Kashmir
Chinese reformer who worked to modernize China's economy through the Four Modernizations
A book of quotations by Mao Zedong; propaganda during the Cultural Revolution
What is the little red book
Refugees that fled Vietnam by boat or ship after the Vietnam War
What are boat people
What is East Timor
A powerful herbicide used by the United States during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese an Viet Cong troops.
What was Agent Orange
The location in Beijing, China where many people, mostly students, protesting for democracy were wounded and killed by the Chinese government
What is Tiananmen Square
The line of latitude that splits North and South Korea
The communist regime that controlled Cambodia. Led by Pol Pot.
What was the Khmer Rouge
The cruel leader of the Philippines who accepted money from the United States while letting his people starve
Who is Ferdinand Marcos
The campaign undertaken by the Chinese communists between 1958 and early 1960 to organize its vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet China’s industrial and agricultural problems
What is the Great Leap Forward