Government systems
Type of system has a ruler who has limited power and there is a parliament who makes the laws in the country.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninula?
This event was sparked by an addictive drug that the British were smuggling into China despite the Emperor saying it was illegal and punishable by death
What is the Opium War?
What is Human Rights?
To end World War II in the Pacific theater and force Japan to surrender this type of weapon was used
What is the atomic bomb?
Type of leader has absolute power and runs that country by using the military to keep people in check.
What is is a dictator?
Earthquake zone in the Pacific Ocean that is very active with seismic activity.
What is the ring of fire?
Because the Qing Dynasty of China seemed weak after losing the Opium War to Great Britain this event lasted 14 years and claimed more than 20 million lives
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
Taxes on goods that are being shipped from one country to another is called
What are tariffs?
During World War II Japanese fighter pilots who followed the Bushido warrior code of fighting to the death crashed their planes to try and take out enemy ships. These pilots were known as
What is Kamikaze?
South Korea has a government like the USA where the people vote for their leaders.
What is a democracy?
A large wave that gains strength in the ocean and crashes on land with deadly force
What is a tsunami?
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
An island chain or group of islands is called
What is an archipelago?
In 1989 students were protesting in China because they wanted the government to be more democratic and give them freedoms
What is Tiananmen Square ?
This type of government owns and operates all businesses and in theory everyone is supposed to be equal
What is communism?
What is terracing?
This plan was started by Mao Zedong and the communists party of China to help speed up the modernization of farming and factories producing goods
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view (can be poster, video, brochure or other types of media)
What is propaganda?
A family of rulers who have control over a country and the leader is called an emperor or empress
What is a dynasty?
Name of North Korea's current leader who is a dictator
Who is Kim Jong Un?
This word in another word for farming
What is agriculture?
This event in China was intended to stop Chinese people from clinging to the old cultural ways and millions of people were tortured, humiliated and killed by supporters of Mao Zedong and the Communist party
What is the Cultural Revolution?
Leader of Communist China in 1949 who wanted to modernize China
Who is Mao Zedong?
The two Japanese cities the atomic bombs were dropped by the United States to end World War II
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?