Cold War in Asia
Chinese Security
Alliances in Asia
Nuclear North Korea
Insurgency in Asia
100

The Khmer Rouge carried out a massive genocide in which country?

Cambodia

100

In the late 1960s and throughout 1970s, the greatest security threat to China came from which country?

Soviet Union

100

The ability for a state to determine its own policies is termed what?

autonomy

100

The first North Korean successful nuclear test was in what year?

2006

100

This type of insurgency wants to break away to form a new state.

Secessionist

200

In what year did Chinese engineering and anti-aircraft artillery units return from service in North Vietnam?

1970

200

The name of the document that Nixon signed at the conclusion of the former president's trip to China in 1972.

Shanghai Communique

200

When the Soviet Union did not come to the aid of Vietnam when it was attacked by China in 1979, this could be classified as ___________________.

abandonment

200

What do Ochmanek & Schwartz contend is NK's most compelling motivation for possessing a nuclear deterrent?

deterring threats to the survival of the regime

200

The Taliban and ISIS both represent this type of insurgency group.

Traditionalist

300

What did Stalin warn the CCP would bring about if it engaged in a civil war with the GMD?

"the Chinese nation would face self-destruction."

300

In what year did an anti-Communist and anti-Chinese rebellion erupt in Tibet?

1959

300

How many middle school children were killed in the infamous "highway incident" in South Korea in 2002 by a U.S. mine-clearing tank?

Two

300

TRUE OR FALSE: Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) can penetrate the earth several feet.

TRUE

300

It is estimated that the Tamil Tigers received this amount of money each year from the Tamil diaspora to help them purchase weapons from North Korea.

$60 million

400

Where did U.S. forces do a surprise amphibious landing that brought about a dramatic turnaround for the Korean War.

Inchon

400

What is the name of the Chinese strategy to reward politicians and interest groups that show sensitivity to Chinese interests and punish those that don't.

"conditioning" 

400

What two countries does the U.S. explicity extend its nuclear deterrence over?

Japan and South Korea

400

What is the yield in kilotons for the largest nuclear bomb currently in the U.S. arsenal?

1,200 kt

400

Galula argues that the initial ___________ of the insurgency will diminish as a war erupts between the insurgents and the government.

cause or causes

500

What islands controlled by Taiwan were shelled by China in 1958 and caused Eisenhower to use U.S. naval assets to protect them?

金門  Jinmen (Quemoy)

500
What is the name of the person that Mao Zedong personally named as his "designated successor"?

Lin Biao (林彪 )

500

This Japanese Prime Minister initiated a number of alliance difficulties with President Obama.

Hatoyama

500

What are the four lessons NK leaders have learned from the multiple U.S. led foreign imposed regime changes?

Dig deep; Disperse; Don't reveal anything; Don't give up the weapons

500

What did Galula contend that counter-insurgency forces should be able to do to young insurgent movements?

infiltrate