Asian Geography
This geographical feature makes up most of East Asian geography.
What are mountains?
China was ruled by these for the majority of it's history.
What are dynasties?
This Japanese Clan unified Japan under one banner, claiming ancestry from a descendent of a Kami
What is the Yamato Clan?
Korea was controlled by this country for much of it's history.
What is China?
Who are the French?
These rivers see the majority of China's population residing nearby.
What are the Chang and Huang?
This empire is the largest known empire in human history and allowed the Silk Road to prosper under it's rule.
What is the Mongol Empire
This Japanese religion has multiple gods, called Kami, and is still the predominate religion of Japan.
What is Shintoism?
Before WWII, this country took control of Korea from Russia and China.
What is Japan?
This person was the communist leader of North Vietnam after the split when the French left.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This is the type of geography is Japan.
What is an archipelago?
China often times referred to itself as this, referencing it's natural isolation.
What is the Middle Kingdom
These people, often military warlords, took power from the Japanese Emperors and ruled in his place.
What is the Shogun?
Korea was split between these two countries at the end of WWII, who were ideologically opposed to one another.
Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This was the theory that if one country fell to communism, the others surrounding it would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
What is harsh winters?
This man is responsible for the Communist Revolution in China, often being seen with a red book.
Who is Mao Zedong?
These are the reforms which brough Japan out of it's isolationist period, named after the emperor who took power as they occurred.
What are the Meiji Reforms?
By invading the South in 1950 to reunify, the North sparked this conflict.
What is the Korean War
This was Richard Nixon's plan to get the United States out of Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
This country is lacking in resources, causing them to depend on others.
This was the plan to quickly industrialize China after the Communist Revolution, but it ended in failure because of how behind China was.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This country controlled Japan for 6 years after WWII, effectively remaking the country to look more like theirs.
What is the United States?
This location is one of the most heavily guarded locations in the world.
What is the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ?
This group took control of Cambodia after being invaded by the US and North Vietnamese, resulting in one of the worst genocides in modern history.
What is the Khmer Rouge?