groups of students who carried out Mao Zedong's policies during the Cultural Revolution
What are Red Guards?
100
What is one way that Japan became a prosperous industrial nation?
Improved existing products
100
Why does India have a much lower standard of living than countries that have a lower gross domestic product?
The GDP is divided among a population of over 1 billion people.
200
a cease-fire agreement
What is a truce?
200
the number of lives births each year per 1,000 people
What is birthrate?
200
a period during which an economy and the businesses that support it shrink, or make less money
What is a recession?
200
What is the most important part of Japan's economy today?
Service industries
200
Describe India's middle class.
Expanding and one of the largest in the world.
300
a huge food shortage
What is a famine?
300
an economic system in which people can choose their own jobs, start private businesses, own property, and make a profit
What is free enterprise?
300
In the 1950s, the communist government in China began a policy called the "Great Leap Forward" in order to increase __________.
production in farms and factories
300
What is one factor that has affected Japan's labor force?
Limited immigration and low birthrate
300
In Asia, which is the only other country to have a faster growing economy than India?
China
400
money given by a government to assist a private company
What is a subsidy?
400
to add variety to
What is diversify?
400
What was the purpose of Mao Zedong's policy of the Cultural Revolution?
Create a new society
400
How are the economies of North Korea and South Korea different?
North Korea's economy is run by the government, isolated, and in poor shape while South Korea's economy is based on free enterprise. They are a leading economic power.
400
Who was Gandhi and what did he fight for?
He was a leader of the independence movement from Britain in India during the early 1900s.
500
the total value of all goods and services produced in an economy
What is gross domestic product?
500
an area in which no weapons are allowed
What is demilitarized zone?
500
Where did the Chinese Nationalists establish the Republic of China?
Taiwan
500
Why does the demilitarized zone exist?
No peace treaty was signed to end the Korean War
500
the percentage of a population age 15 and over that can read and write