Communism in China
By the 1930s, China entered a period of civil war between these two main political parties to determine who would control the country.
What are the Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Communist Party (CCP)?
Before the war, Korea was a colony of this country.
What is Japan?
Vietnam was a colony of this country before the war.
What is France?
The two major groups that fought for independence were these two groups.
What are the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League?
During this year, Japan had almost all of Southeast Asia.
What is 1942?
Who is Mao Zedong?
This is the parallel that divides North Korea and South Korea.
The US entered the war because North Vietnamese boats fired torpedoes on an American ship patrolling in this gulf.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
This person was a believer in non-violence and wanted to show the world the injustice of British rule in India.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
Instead of sending thousands of troops to die, President Turman used this new secret weapon of America.
What is an atomic bomb?
This student group was organized to harass moderate communists and accused parents and teachers who did not support Mao Zedong and his teachings.
Who are The Red Guard?
The Korean War was this many years long.
What is three years?
This is the theory that if one Southeast Asian country fell to communism, the rest would as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
The refusal to obey unfair laws even if the result was punishment is called this. For example, the refusal to pay taxes which did not benefit the Indian people.
What is Civil Disobedience?
Japan surrendered on August 9, 1945, after the United States dropped a bomb on this Japanese city.
What is Nagasaki, Japan?
In April of 1989, thousands of students gathered in Tiananmen Square to protest corruption in the Chinese government and ask for more democracy in China. The students protested for this many weeks.
What is seven weeks?
This U.S. general pushed the Communist North Koreans out of South Korea but pushed too far all the way to the Chinese border. They thought this was a threat, so they sent troops as well, invading South Korea again.
Who is General Douglass MacArthur?
US troops were involved in the war for this many years.
What is 16 years?
What is 1947?
General Douglass MacArthur helped write a new Japanese constitution. It formed Japan's current government, this type of government system.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
During the Great Leap, there were many of these, each containing about 5000 families. The Great Leap was a failure though, because workers were diverted to industry which left crops to not be collected.
What are communes?
To end the war, this type of agreement was made to stop hostilities, allowing the US and Korea to stop fighting and divide North and South Korea once again.
What is an armistice?
The Vietnam War was the first war the US lost. These three countries fell to communism, but the rest of Southeast Asia did not.
What are Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam?
The final decision was to divide India into three different countries. West Pakistan and East Pakistan (Now Bangladesh) for the Muslims, and India for this religious group.
What is Hinduism?
In the end, the rebuilding of Japan was a success. Communism never spread to Japan, and the United States and Japan even worked together to become this.
What is an ally?