Geography/Religion
History
Government
Economics
Important People
100
This is a river in China. Referred to as "China's Sorrow". This river has a lot of silt.
What is the Yellow River(Huang He)?
100
Mao Zedong leads the People's Liberation Army ( a group of Communists) to take China from the grasp of the Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-Shek. Chiang is forced to flee to Taiwan. Mao Zedong sets up a Communist government in 1949.
What is the Communist Revolution?
100
This is the Japanese legislative branch. It is bicameral. The two houses are the House of Representatives and the House of Councilors.
What is the Diet?
100
This is when a country is very good at producing a certain product.
What is specialization?
100
This man led an independence movement in Vietnam. He was the leaders of the Viet Minh army. He helped Vietnam break away from the French colony of Indochina. Following North Vietnam defeating South Vietnam in the Vietnam War, Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
200
Siddhartha Gautama is the founder. Followers must follow the Eightfold Path to reach enlightenment/nirvana.
What is Buddhism?
200
In 1947, Mohandas Gandhi wins India its independence through passive resistance. However, because of religious tension, India is divided along religious boundaries. Muslims are forced into East and West Pakistan. Hindus are forced to live in India.
What is the Partition of India?
200
The government rules and owns everything. The citizens are all supposed to be equal. Some examples in Asia are modern day China, North Korea, and former North Vietnam.
What is communism?
200
The government has complete control over the economy.
What is a command economy?
200
This man was sent into Japan by the USA as part of the occupying of Japan after WWII. He helped set up a constitution and a democracy.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
300
This is a very mountainous country. There is little arable land. This is an archipelago. To the west is the Sea of Japan. To the east is Mariana's Trench and the Pacific Ocean.
What is Japan?
300
Japan begins to lose islands in the Pacific to the US. The USA's Manhattan Project (atomic bomb development) is a sucess. President Harry Truman orders atomic bombs to be dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens die. Japan surrenders. WWII ends. USA begins occupying Japan.
What happened in Japan, 1945?
300
The central government has all the power in a government.
What is a unitary system of government?
300
This is the base for the market economy. This is when price is based on how much of the product there is and how much people want the product.
What is the Law of Supply and Demand?
300
This man led the Indian independence movement. He used passive resistance and nonviolence in his protests. He wanted people to speak out for what they believe.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
400
This is a strip of land surrounded by water in three directions.
What is a peninsula?
400
North Korea(Communist) wants to take over South Korea (Democracy). North Korea pours soldiers across the 38th Parallel in 1950. The USA backs South Korea, and the Soviet Union backs North Korea. The conflict ends in 1953. They still have conflicts today.
What is the Korean War?
400
This group in China selects the National People's Congress.
What is the Chinese Communist Party?
400
This country has a mixed/market economy. They specialize in consumer goods. There are a lot of people who farm.
What is China's economy?
400
This Japanese man led Japan for most of the 20th century. He ordered the bombing on Pearl Harbor in 1941. He was kept as a figure head in the democracy formed by the USA.
Who is Emperor Hirohito?
500
This religion is widely practiced in Japan. The followers believe in spirits (kami). These spirits are in everything in nature.
What is Shintoism?
500
After WWII, Communism starts to set in. This thought was to mean if one country fell to communism then many others would fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
500
This is a democracy on the Korean Peninsula.
What is South Korea's government type?
500
This is when you trade without the use of currency.
What is bartering?
500
This man took over China after Mao Zedong died. He modernized the economy of China. He started allowing private businesses.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
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