East Asia Potluck
This is the island Chinese Nationalists fled to following their loss in the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
What is Taiwan?
This is the capital of China
What is Beijing
This was a policy where urban families in China could only have one child.
What is the One Child Policy?
The type of land formation Korea is on
What is a peninsula?
The piece of land that splits North and South Korea which is controlled by no single nation.
What is the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)?
This empire existed on the Far East Asian Steppes from 1200-1300, becoming the largest contiguous empire in world history.
What is the Mongol Empire
This person was the leader of the communist revolution in China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The One Child Policy was enacted in order to solve what problem in China?
What is Overpopulation?
The capital of South Korea
What is Seoul?
The country that stepped in the fight following the UN's push into the Yalu River to attack the North Koreans
What is China?
This was the leader of the Mongol empire
Who is Genghis Khan
Hundreds of families would work at these sites growing whatever the government told them to grow.
What are Collective Farms?
This is another country facing similar population issues as China but has been using different approaches to solve it.
What is India?
The capital of North Korea
What is Pyongyang?
The latitude line that lies along the border of North and South Korea
What is the 38th Parallel?
Most of China’s social structure is based on this idea.
What is hierarchy or ranking?
This was a period of time from the early 1960s where Mao Zedong tried to get more people working in factories and collective farms. It eventually failed after millions died from starvation and the economy crashed.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The amount of children born per woman
What is fertility rate?
This ranking system determined your place in society by how closely related you were to the Silla emperor.
What is the "Bone Rank" system?
The country that didn't sign the armistice to end the Korean War.
What is South Korea
This major world city was once a trading post in the Mongolian Empire that became incredibly important to the formation of modern day Russia.
What is Moskovi (Moscow)?
Another movement by Mao Zedong enacted in order to wipe out anything "anti communist". This resulted in thousands dying due to the violence.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
These were 2 unintended consequences of the One Child Policy
What is poor mental health for the children and old people outnumbering young people?
The last and longest lasting dynasty in Korea
What is the Joseon dynasty?
The government type of North Korea, which was supported by China and the Soviet Union
What is a Socialist Dictatorship?