After Chinese Nationalists in China were defeated, the fled to this island.
What is Taiwan?
100
a spiritual and political leader who led a nonviolent movement to improve the lives of many people in India
Who is Gandhi?
200
a raised area of level land bordered on one or more sides by steep slopes or cliffs
What is a plateau?
200
the number of live births each year per 1,000 people
What is birth rate?
200
a group of islands (Japan and Hawaii are examples)
What is an archipelago?
200
These were groups of students who carried out Mao Zedong's policies during the Cultural Revolution
Who are the Red Guards?
200
What types of goods does Japan mostly export?
What are electronics?
300
the average number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer
What is population density?
300
an area in which no weapons are allowed (border of N.K. and S.K.
What is a demilitarized zone? (DMZ)
300
to add variety to
What is diversify?
300
What was the point of the Cultural Revolution in China?
To create a completely new society to give Mao more control
300
The Huang River runs through a fertile region of East Asia called....
What is the North China Plain?
400
extreme
What is radical?
400
a huge food shortage
What is a famine?
400
the total value of all goods and services produced in an economy
What is gross domestic product?
400
What was "The Great Leap Forward" under Mao's leadership?
A program (very unsuccessful) to increase production on farms and in factories (led to a massive famine)
400
Reason for the North China Plain is being one of the most fertile regions in China
What are loess deposits from the floods?
500
the period during which an economy and the businesses that support it shrink, or make less money
What is a recession?
500
money given by a government to assist a private company (Japan after WWII)
What is subsidy?
500
an economic system in which people can choose their own jobs, start private businesses, own property, and make a profit (China switched to this after being under Mao's communist rule).
What is a free enterprise system?
500
Why does the demilitarized zone exist?
A cease-fire agreement was signed, but no peace treaty was ever agree upon
500
Describe the population density in East Asia.
Spread unevenly - the population is more concentrated on the coastal region and plains and less concentrated in the mountains, deserts, and highlands.