China
Who was the Chairman of China after Mao Zedong?
Deng Xiaoping.
Who was the 124th emperor of Japan, ruling over the Empire of Japan from 1926 until 1947 and was commander in chief in WWII?
Hirohito or Emperor Showa.
Why did the US and the USSR want to separate the Koreas?
They believed that the Koreas seemed like a larger power together and they each wanted a part of it.
Who was South Korea's leader 3 years before and during the start of the democratic-republic government?
Roh Tae-Woo.
Who did China side with in The Civil War?
France and the Russian Empire.
What happened to the citizens who had called for a democratic government?
They were sentenced to long terms in prison.
What was the name of the Prime Minister and President of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for most of World War II in Japan while also being Chief of Staff of the Imperial Army before being removed from office in July 1944?
Hideki Tojo.
Who was the 2nd leader of North Korea since the formation of 1953 and created a nuclear program to keep his country safe?
Kim Jong II.
What was the name of the line that separated the Koreas into North and South?
The 38th Parallel.
What was the name of the war that China participated in before and after WW2? It was on hold while they fought in WW2.
The Civil War.
Through the early 2000’s, who was China determined to unify itself with and why?
Taiwan because of their military power and they wanted Japan, India, and Russia to fear them.
What was the force that the U.S wanted to enforce for Japan that was established till 1954 and led to the renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty of 1960?
Japan's Self Defense Force.
What led to economic problems and forced the North Korean government to devalue its currency in 2009 while also having to ask for the U.N and U.S for help?
Droughts and famine.
Why did leader Lee Myung Bak fire live artillery and send military ships to North Korea?
He disliked their nuclear program towards the end of the 2010s.
How did the Korean War start?
When North Korea had invaded South Korea due to political tensions of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
What is the One Child Policy?
A program that the government had made to control its population by requiring citizens to have only one child.
What had Japan slipped into in the 1990s where workers were laid off, savings were declined and retirement programs were strained which resulted in the Lost Decade?
An economic recession.
Who was the youngest head of state in the world and became leader after Kim Jong II following his legacy?
Kim Jong Un. (Kim Jong II's eldest son).
What did South Korea have an enjoyed period of?
Rapid industrial development and economic growth.
Who was North Korea supported by in the Korean War and who was South Korea supported by?
North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union.
South Korea was supported by the United Nations, mainly the United States.
What is the Tiananmen Square Protest?
The students that had studied abroad had found out about the past of corruption and Communist leaders, so they began to protest to get rid of it while Xiaoping had saw the protesting as a call to end the Communist Rule.
What was Japan's Depression Era?
When Japan had received a crushing economic blow as a result of an offshore earthquake which had caused a tsunami that wiped out lots of cities, people and farmland on the Northeast Coast on March 11, 2011.
What is North Korea's population as last counted?
Their population consisted of 25,938,099 as of Tuesday, November 30, 2021.
Did South Korea have as many complications with their new government as North Korea did with Communism?
No, South Korea had very few complications with their government as North Korea had major economic and depression problems.
What did the Korean War "end" with and why was it ended that way?
The Korean War was "ended" with an armistice on July 27, 1953. It ended so the war wouldn’t extend into a bigger war with Japan and Russia joining in.