U is for Uzbekistan
V is for the Vietnam War
W is for World War II
X is for Xianfeng
Y is for Yin and Yang
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Uzbekistan became part of the Mongol Empire in the 13th and 14th century when this person conquered Central Asia.
Who is Genghis Khan?
100
In 1955-57, Ngo Dinh Diem, an anti communist figure, became the first president of South Vietnam(GVN), got the support of the US for an attack on North Vietnam by claiming that they did this.
What is attacked GVN?
100
The political structure of Japan was inherited from the Meiji era, which was dominated by this and ruled by a small group of old statesmen.
What is the military?
100
Xianfeng was this emperor of the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty.
What is 7th?
100
Yin cannot exist without this.
What is yang.
200
In 1917, Tashkent became Tashkent Soviet after this happened in Russia.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
200
After beginning to counter attack in 1957 with American help, Ngo Dinh Diem passed Law 10/59 which made it legal to do this to someone if they were thought to be a communist.
What is jail them without bringing up formal charges?
200
This person forced the military to surrender after the atomic bombings
Who is the emperor?
200
After fleeing Beijing, Xianfeng stayed in Rehe while he made these people sign the Beijing Convention which meant that China agreed with the Treaties
Who were his ministers?
200
If Yin is south of a river and Yang is north of a river, then they are this.
What are opposites?
300
In the 7th & 8th centuries, the Arabs conquered the area and converted it inhabitants to this popular religion.
What is Islam?
300
In 1959, the Communists of the North realized that the only way to defeat Ngo Dinh Diem was to use this.
What is violence/violent tactics. Before this, the Communists want to reunite the country through political means alone.
300
In this year, Japan invaded China.
What is 1937?
300
Xianfeng refused to sign the Treaties of Tianjin with this country and France, which would have increased trading privileges.
What is Britain? He was later forced to flee Beijing.
300
There a 4 possible states of imbalance, excess of yin, excess of yang, deficiency of yang, and this.
What is deficiency of yin.
400
In the 1st century BCE, Central Asia formed important parts of this major trade route, connecting China to the Middle East & Rome.
What is the Great Silk Road? Bet you can't guess what it was used for...
400
This treaty signed in Geneva, with outside pressure from China & the Soviet Union, allowed Vietnam to split itself at the 17th parallel and to vote to join together again in 1956. The US was not very fond of this treating, feeling as though it gave too much power to the Communist party of Vietnam.
What is the Geneva Peace Accords? The US was not very fond of this treating, feeling as though it gave too much power to the Communist party of Vietnam. Thus, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was created to give the south a different government.
400
Japan was in a state of total war in 1941 after this and had a wartime regime.
What is went to war with U.S.?
400
Xianfeng's troops were ineffectibe against the Taiping rebels and they took this city in 1853.
What is Nanjing?
400
Tsou Yen of this school wrote it down and elaborated on it during the Warring States Period.
What is the Naturalist school? The Naturalist school encouraged living in harmony with natural laws.
500
Uzbekistan became a sovereign country in 1991 after a century of Russian rule, with this person being the president since 1989.
Who is Islam Karimov? His daughter objected to his actions and smuggled a letter to the press outside of Uzbekistan.
500
The Vietnam War ended when the Communists captured this in Saigon in 1975
What is the presidential palace?
500
This group of countries were protecting their economic rights, tariffs, and sanctions and Japan wanted to copy them to get out of a depression.
What are The Great Powers?
500
The Taiping Rebellion began a few months after Xianfeng became emperor and this rebellion began in 1852 in the north.
What is the Nian Rebellion?
500
This is the earliest reference of Yin and Yang and is from about 700 BCE.
What is I Ching (Book of Changes)?
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