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Potpouri
100
An economic system in which people can start private businesses and own property.
What is free enterprise?
100
China's form of government.
What is Communist or Communism?
100
These groups of students destroyed some of China's most beautiful "old" buildings.
What are the Red Guards?
100
The program started in China to increase output from farms and factories.
What is the "Great Leap Forward?"
200
To add variety to.
What is diversify?
200
North Korea's form of government.
What is Communist or Communism?
200
Leader of China's government from 1949 to 1976.
Who is Mao Zedong?
300
A period during which an economy and its businesses shrink or make less money.
What is recession?
300
South Korea's form of government.
What is a democracy?
300
This country is an important manufacturer of high-technology products.
What is Japan?
300
A country which faced famine (food shortages) due in part to outdated farming methods.
What is North Korea?
400
Money given by a government to assist a private company.
What is subsidy?
400
This country has government-owned factories.
What is North Korea or China?
400
A country rich in mineral resources.
What is North Korea?
400
A group of companies that join together to work toward one another's success.
What is keiretsu?
500
The total value of all goods and services produced in an economy.
What is gross domestic product?
500
Groups of Chinese Nationalists fled to this country to escape the Communist government's control of China.
What is Taiwan?
500
Name two challenges facing Japan's work (labor) force.
What are an aging population, low birthrate, few younger workers, or limited immigration?
500
Name two products made in South Korea.
What are ships, electronics, silicon chips, plastics, and rubber?
500
Name two countries that lack many natural resources.
What are Japan and South Korea?