The Olden Days
War and Diplomacy
Revolution
(and other fun things)
Random Vocab
Big Busine$$
100

This ancient civilization settled along the Yellow River

Erlitou


100

Bad drug deals lead to this conflict between Britain and China

The First Opium War

100

Created by students and former KMT members. Goal: peasant-class revolution

Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

100

Define: bureaucracy 


administration of the state (gov’t)

100

This organization's side gig was smuggling opium into China

British East India Company

200
Ancient China's only true invaders

Pastoral nomads (from the Eurasian steppe)

200

“one of the great achievements of military engineering of the 20th century”

Ho Chi Minh Trail

200

Political party formed by Ho Chi Minh to oppose colonial rule

Indochinese Communist Party

200

"the domino effect"

If one Asian country falls to communism, the rest will fall like dominoes! 
200

British treaty which allowed the importation of Opium to Siam, British ownership of Thai lands, and British extraterritoriality

Bowring Treaty (1855)

300

Confucianism was this dynasty's ruling philosophy

Han Dynasty

300

This agreement divided Vietnam into North and South at the 17th parallel

Geneva Accords of 1954

300

Underground movement; supplied the Allied Powers with intelligence to help them defeat Japan

Free Thai Movement

300

cult of personality

Leader = charismatic center of all authority and wisdom

300

Name the two major French exports (products) from Vietnam

Rice and rubber

400

Japan's earliest civilization

Sannai-Maruyama

400

In this agreement, the Emperor of Korea gives all authority to the Emperor of Japan

Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910

400

The exile of the CCP

The Long March (1934-35)

400

Japanese Empire's ruler; "heavenly sovereign"

tenno

400

Name for French "settlers"/plantation owners in Vietnam

colons

500

Opened diplomatic relations with Japan; never married and lived in a castle served by 1,000 women!

Queen Himiko of Japan

500

Japan attacks China (hoping to capitalize off of the KMT-CCP divisions)

Second Sino-Japanese War

500

This person persecuted Chinese *and* Vietnamese communists; eventually exiled to Taiwan

Chiang Kai-shek

500

Korea's namesake comes from what kingdom?

Goryeo Kingdom

500

Define: reform and opening (must include name of creator!)

Deng Xiaoping; opening up China's economy to international trade, working with capitalist countries, placing communist ideals on the sidelines