Environmental Issues
Hindu people use this river for cleaning their sins and burning their relatives.
What is the Ganges River?
The head of the Chinese Communist Party, who declared China a Communist Nation known as the 'People's Republic of China'. Their goal was to drive all of the moderates out of power.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The Cold War policy that if Vietnam became Communist, the entire rest of Asia would, too. Because American lawmakers believed in this idea, the United States didn't offer as much support as they should have in the beginning.
What is the 'domino theory'?
Korea was a divided colony of this country for 35 years before World War II.
What is Japan?
This is known as Japan's legislature. It is similar to the US Congress in that citizens can elect representatives.
What is the Japanese Diet?
An estimated 70 percent of these two countries' air pollution is caused by automobiles.
What are India and China?
A program designed to increase support for and remove opposition to Mao Zedong and the Communist Party. It attempted to eliminate all traces of traditional Chinese culture, habits, and ideas, and ended with Zedong's death.
What was the Cultural Revolution?
North Vietnamese boats fired on an American ship patrolling in this area on August 2, 1964, and the conflict caused the involvement of the United States.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
Korea was divided at this point in August of 1945.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The United States helped Japan because they wanted them to have this type of government.
What is a democracy?
Many people in India and other countries in Asia suffer from diseases like pneumonia, malaria, dysentery, and influenza because of these natural disasters.
What are floods?
A program that started in 1958 that was meant to speed up China's economic development. It ended as a failure in early 1960, and led to Mao Zedong losing power to moderates in the Communist Party.
What was the Great Leap Forward?
These two other countries in South East Asia also fell to Communism at the end of the war.
What are Cambodia and Laos?
This American General led the UN forces in South Korea and managed to push the North Koreans back to the Chinese border in just a few weeks.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This country helped Japan rebuild itself to maintain economic stability and the peaceful Japanese co-existence with the rest of the world.
What is the United States?
This is the longest river in China, traveling through about 185 towns where more than 400 million people live. This also means that more than 400 million people depend on the polluted water from this river.
What is the Yangtze River?
A protest led by students in April of 1989 to speak out against corruption and communism in the Chinese government. It was one of the most famous examples of communist cruelty and repression.
What was the Tienanmen Square Massacre?
President Nixon announced a ceasefire, released POWs, and began withdrawing US troops in this year.
When was 1973?
This American President took office during the middle of the war in 1953 and negotiated a ceasefire with North and South Korea.
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This is the title of a 'leader' of Japan that has no power or authority.
What is a figurehead?
This type of pollution causes environmental harm and health problems in China.
What is Acid Rain Pollution?
The Goddess of Democracy, modeled after the Statue of Liberty, was built after this major event in 1989. It is 10 meters tall and was built in the span of four days using foam and paper-mâché over a metal base.
What was the Tienanmen Square Massacre?
Who was President Lyndon Johnson?
The small tract of land where US and North Korean soldiers still guard. It is about 160 miles long, and military activities and hostiles are forbidden.
What is the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)?
This American General wrote in the constitution that the Japanese people were forbidden to build armies.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?