Korean war
The U.S. supported this side during the Korean War.
What is South Korea?
This method is used by totalitarian regimes to control public opinion.
What is censorship or propaganda?
During dynastic China, the emperor ruled from this famous palace.
What is the Forbidden City?
This treaty ended the First Opium War, forcing China to pay reparations, open new ports, and give Britain control of Hong Kong.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
The leader who ordered the killings was this Nationalist general.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
The U.S. and Soviet Union avoided direct war by fighting through smaller nations, creating what type of conflict?
What is a proxy war?
An area that is impossible to cross and was created as a result of the Korean War
what is the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) ?
A period of time in China where emperors ruled and which often ended in overthrow
What is the dynastic period?
This Chinese official and later governor of Canton aggressively destroyed opium and tried to stop the British trade, actions which helped trigger the First Opium War.
Who is Lin Zexu?
The massacre marked the beginning of this major conflict.
What is the Chinese Civil War?
To leave one’s country to join another is called this.
What is Defecting?
The DMZ roughly follows this line of latitude that separated North and South before the war.
What is the 38th parallel?
The fall of the dynasties led to this revolution in 1911.
What is the Chinese Revolution?
The Opium Wars resulted in China giving up this major port city to Britain.
What is Hong Kong?
The event forced the Communists to retreat and regroup in this famous march.
What is the Long March?
The United States entered the Korean War under the flag of this international organization, aiming to contain the spread of communism.
What is the United Nations?
In a totalitarian system, power is concentrated in this one figure or institution.
What is a single leader or political party?
This system believed rulers had the “Mandate of Heaven.”
What is the dynastic cycle?
The Second Opium War (1856–1860) involved not just Britain but this other Western power, which joined in to demand more trading rights in China.
What is France?
The Shanghai Massacre revealed the deep divide between these two ideologies.
Who are the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party (KMT- Kuomintang)?
After years of bloody fighting, the war ended not with a peace treaty, but with this type of agreement in 1953 — one that simply paused the conflict.
What is an armistice?
One major effect of totalitarian control is the absence of these basic freedoms.
What are civil liberties or human rights?
The fall of the dynastic system led to decades of civil war between these two groups.
Who are the Nationalists and the Communists?
The Opium Wars marked the beginning of this period of foreign influence in China.
What is the “Century of Humiliation”?
After the massacre, the Communists survived by going underground and using these tactics to continue resisting Nationalist control.
What are secret networks, propaganda, and guerrilla tactics?