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Revolution in Asia
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10th Grade
04/08/2007

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Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
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China's first Communist ruler
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communes
Definition
Huge farming communities in which Chinese peasants had to live
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Seoul
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South Korean capital; site of the 1988 Summer Olympics
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Deng Xiaoping
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Most powerful Chinese leader of the 1980s and 1990s
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South Korea
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The Korea that emerged as an economic powerhouse in the 1990s
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the pro-democracy movement
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Chinese student movement of 1989
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Taiwan
Definition
Island home of the Chinese Nationalists
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the People's Republic of China
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Official name of Communist China
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Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai)
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Chinese premier, Mao's second-in-command
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Richard Nixon
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American president who visited China in 1972, opening relations
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the Cultural Revolution
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China's domestic upheaval in the 1960s
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the Red Guards
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Radical semi-military groups of students and young people during China's cultural revolution
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the United Nations
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International body that China joined in 1971
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isolation
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North Korea's basic foreign policy principle
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Kim Il Sung
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North Korea's leader from 1948 to 1994
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Tiananmen Square
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Site of Beijing's 1989 student demonstrations and massacre
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the demilitarized zone
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Neutral zone between North and South Korea
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Hong Kong
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Thriving business center and British colony that reverted to China in 1997
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private enterprise
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China allowed a limited amount of this in its economy in the 1980s.
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the 38th Parallel
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Dividing line between North and South Korea
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the United Nations Army
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Army that fought North Korean troops from 1950 to 1953
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religious preferences
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The subcontinent was divided along these lines.
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population growth
Definition
Major stumbling block to economic improvement
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floods
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Natural phenomena that periodically devastate Bangladesh
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Indira Gandhi
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Nehru's daughter, India's prime minister, assassinated in 1984
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nuclear devices
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Controversial items tested by India and Pakistan in 1998
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Muslims
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Predominant population of Pakistan
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Hindus
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Predominant population of India
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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India's first prime minister from 1950 to 1964
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language differences
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Major stumbling block to Indian unity, besides religion and caste
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Bangladesh
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Current name of former East Pakistan
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the Sikhs
Definition
Indian minority responsible for Indira Gandhi's assassination
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her son, Rajiv Gandhi
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Indira Gandhi's successor, also assassinated
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India and Pakistan
Definition
Nations that fought each other following a civil war between East and West Pakistan
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Benazir Bhutto
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Former president's daughter, elected prime minister of Pakistan in 1988
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the Dalai Lama
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Tibetian leader who fled to India in 1959
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the Indus River Valley
Definition
River valley of West Pakistan
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the Ganges Delta
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River delta of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
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Kashmir
Definition
Northern Indian state, claimed by both India and Pakistan, site of many clashes
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the Congress Party
Definition
India's dominant political party
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General Zia (Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq)
Definition
Pakistani dictator killed in 1988 plane crash
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Bhopal
Definition
Site of disastrous poison gas leak in India, December 1984
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the Taliban
Definition
Afghanistan's strict Islamic rulers in the 1990s
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Japan
Definition
Asia's leading industrial power in the later 20th century
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the United States
Definition
Japan's leading trading partner
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exports
Definition
Japan's economy depended on these.
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Ferdinand Marcos
Definition
Philippine dictator ousted in 1986
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military bases
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The U.S. struggled to keep these strategic posts in the Philippines.
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Hirohito
Definition
Japanese emperor who died in 1989
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earthquakes
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Natural disasters that often rock Japan
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Sri Lanka
Definition
Name of Ceylon as of 1972
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democratic, parliamentary, or constitutional monarchy
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Type of government established in Japan in 1947
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Nationalist China (the republic of China) (Taiwan)
Definition
Island nation expelled from the United Nations in 1971
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the Philippines
Definition
Nation given independence by the United States on July 4, 1946
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martial law
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Military rule, imposed on the Philippines by Marcos in 1972
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SEATO (the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)
Definition
The U.S.-Asian mutual defense organization
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communist and/or Muslim guerrillas
Definition
Rebels who fought a continuing battle against the Philippine government
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Singapore
Definition
Prosperous independent city-state at the tip of the Malay Peninsula
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Corazon Aquino
Definition
"Filipino democratic leader, successor of Marcos"
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Indonesia
Definition
New name for the Netherlands East Indies
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Borneo, Sumatra, Irian Jaya (New Guinea), Sulawesi, Java
Definition
The five largest islands of Indonesia
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Suharto
Definition
General who ruled Indonesia from 1968 through 1998
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the Tamil (or Tigers)
Definition
Guerrillas of Sri Lanka who wage a bloody campaign for an independent homeland
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Malaysia
Definition
New nation that included Malaya, Sabah, and Sarawak
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Sukarno
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Indonesia's first president
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
Communist leader of North Vietnam
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the Viet Cong
Definition
The communist guerrillas in South Vietnam
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Lyndon Johnson
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U.S. president who greatly expanded U.S. involvement in Vietnam
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Hanoi
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Capital of Vietnam
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Saigon
Definition
Capital of South Vietnam; fell to the communists in 1975
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boat people
Definition
Refugees from Southeast Asia who attempted to emigrate by sea
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refugees
Definition
Large drain on Thailand's economy
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the Pacific Rim
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Collective term for the countries that border the Pacific Ocean
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Ho Chi Minh City
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New name of Saigon
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Cambodia
Definition
Neighbor of Vietnam invaded by U.S. troops
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Dwight Eisenhower
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U.S. president who first sent aid to Vietnam
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the Khmer Rouge
Definition
The communist forces of Cambodia who established a brutal rule in the 1970s
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Vietnam
Definition
Country that invaded Cambodia in 1979 and took control for a decade
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Norodom Sihanouk
Definition
Cambodia's ruler from 1941 through 1970, who remained active in exile
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Dienbienphu
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Site of crushing French army defeat by the Vietnamese
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the Pathet Lao
Definition
Communist-led group of Laos
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Thailand
Definition
The one nation of Southeast Asia that never was a European colony
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Burma
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Nation to the east of India; it gained independence in 1948
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Myanmar
Definition
New name given Burma by its military leaders
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Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam
Definition
The three countries formed out of French Indochina
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Definition
Burmese woman who won the Nobel Prize in 1991 while under house arrest
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