Government systems
Geography vocab
Important events
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Stuff I should know
100

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?

100

A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides

What is a peninula?

100

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?

100
Shelter, food, water, education and freedom from torture by your government are called

What is Human Rights?

100

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?

200

Type of leader has absolute power and runs that country by using the military to keep people in check.

What is is a dictator?

200

Earthquake zone in the Pacific Ocean that is very active with seismic activity.  

What is the ring of fire?

200

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?

200

Taxes on goods that are being shipped from one country to another is called

What are tariffs? 

200

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?

300

South Korea has a government like the USA where the people vote for their leaders.

What is a democracy?

300

A large wave that gains strength in the ocean and crashes on land with deadly force

What is a tsunami?

300
The final event that showed the Qing had lost power and led to the downfall of the dynasty was

What is the Boxer Rebellion?

300

An island chain or group of islands is called 

What is an archipelago?

300

In 1989 students were protesting in China because they wanted the government to be more democratic and give them freedoms

What is Tiananmen Square ?

400

This type of government owns and operates all businesses and in theory everyone is supposed to be equal

What is communism?

400
Cutting into mountain sides to create more farmland in Asia

 What is terracing?

400

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?

400

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?

400

A family of rulers who have control over a country and the leader is called an emperor or empress

What is a dynasty?

500

Name of North Korea's current leader who is a dictator

Who is Kim Jong Un?

500

This word in another word for farming

What is agriculture?

500

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?

500

Leader of Communist China in 1949 who wanted to modernize China

Who is Mao Zedong?

500

The two Japanese cities the atomic bombs were dropped by the United States to end World War II

What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?