People
The most notable Leader of the Communist Party in China.
Who is Mao ZeDong?
What is it when a leader makes their people think that he/she is a god or supernatural.
What is the Cult of Personality?
The island that the Chinese Nationalists fled to.
What is Taiwan?
Started when Kim Il Sung invaded South Korea, once the U.S left, hoping to unify Korea under his rule.
What is the Korean War?
On the 38th parallel where no weapons are allowed, and where the North and South Koreans are constantly on a standoff.
What is the Demilitarized Zone?
He was Mao ZeDong's successor in the Chinese Communist Party, he also sent Chinese students abroad to study. (for modern development)
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
When Mao forced large groups of farmers into one farmland area. Where they would only harvest crops for the country instead of for themselves.
What is Collectivization?
The first city that an atomic bomb was dropped on.
What is Hiroshima?
When the Japanese soldiers invaded a city mostly occupied by civilians and committed some of the worst atrocities in human history.
What is The Rape of Nanjing?
Kim Il Sung's term for Self-Reliance.
What is Juche?
He created three main principles which were the foundation for the Chinese Republic.
Who is Sun Yat Sen?
The process of making the relationship between China and the west 'normal'.
What is Normalization?
A place where students protested for democracy outside the Forbidden City.
What is Tiananmen Square?
When Mao was "Swimming in the Peasant Sea" and where he gained most of his popularity in the rural areas.
What is The Long March?
A family run monopoly, in South Korea, that helped the economy explode.
What is a Chaebol?
The Japanese emperor that was forced to surrender to the U.S in WWII, after the two atomic bombs were dropped.
Who is Emperor Hirohito?
These three main principles of Sun Yatsen served as the groundwork for the Chinese Republic.
What is Nationalism, People's rights, Economic Security?
This port city was the last South Korean territory, before the U.S became involved.
What is Pusan/Busan?
When the Japanese blew up their own train rails in order to stage an invasion on Manchuria. (They needed someone to blame)
What is the Mukden Incident?
South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore were all part of a group of countries called?
What are the Asian Tigers?
His work led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
Who is Robert Oppenheimer?
"Hit them where they ain't." The Strategy that General MacArthur used against the Japanese; to cut off their supply lines to weaken their main forces.
Island Hopping
The city that General MacArthur landed at in order to support the South Korean troops. This city has a very high contrast between low and high tide.
What is Incheon?
The turning point where the U.S showed Japan that they were a naval power in the Pacific Theatre. (Six months after Pearl Harbor)
What is The Battle of Midway?
Where the U.S created it's atomic bomb, otherwise known as the "Trinity Project".
What is the Manhatten Project?