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| China's first Communist ruler |
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| Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) |
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| Huge farming communities in which Chinese peasants had to live |
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| South Korean capital; site of the 1988 Summer Olympics |
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| Most powerful Chinese leader of the 1980s and 1990s |
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| The Korea that emerged as an economic powerhouse in the 1990s |
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| Chinese student movement of 1989 |
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| the pro-democracy movement |
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| Island home of the Chinese Nationalists |
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| Official name of Communist China |
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| the People's Republic of China |
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| Chinese premier, Mao's second-in-command |
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| American president who visited China in 1972, opening relations |
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| China's domestic upheaval in the 1960s |
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| Radical semi-military groups of students and young people during China's cultural revolution |
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| International body that China joined in 1971 |
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| North Korea's basic foreign policy principle |
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| North Korea's leader from 1948 to 1994 |
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| Site of Beijing's 1989 student demonstrations and massacre |
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| Neutral zone between North and South Korea |
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| Thriving business center and British colony that reverted to China in 1997 |
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| China allowed a limited amount of this in its economy in the 1980s. |
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| Dividing line between North and South Korea |
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| Army that fought North Korean troops from 1950 to 1953 |
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| The subcontinent was divided along these lines. |
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| Major stumbling block to economic improvement |
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| Natural phenomena that periodically devastate Bangladesh |
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| Nehru's daughter, India's prime minister, assassinated in 1984 |
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| Controversial items tested by India and Pakistan in 1998 |
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| Predominant population of Pakistan |
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| Predominant population of India |
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| India's first prime minister from 1950 to 1964 |
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| Major stumbling block to Indian unity, besides religion and caste |
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| Current name of former East Pakistan |
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| Indian minority responsible for Indira Gandhi's assassination |
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| Indira Gandhi's successor, also assassinated |
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| Nations that fought each other following a civil war between East and West Pakistan |
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| Former president's daughter, elected prime minister of Pakistan in 1988 |
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| Tibetian leader who fled to India in 1959 |
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| River valley of West Pakistan |
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| River delta of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) |
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| Northern Indian state, claimed by both India and Pakistan, site of many clashes |
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| India's dominant political party |
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| Pakistani dictator killed in 1988 plane crash |
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| General Zia (Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq) |
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| Site of disastrous poison gas leak in India, December 1984 |
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| Afghanistan's strict Islamic rulers in the 1990s |
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| Asia's leading industrial power in the later 20th century |
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| Japan's leading trading partner |
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| Japan's economy depended on these. |
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| Philippine dictator ousted in 1986 |
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| The U.S. struggled to keep these strategic posts in the Philippines. |
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| Japanese emperor who died in 1989 |
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| Natural disasters that often rock Japan |
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| Name of Ceylon as of 1972 |
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| Type of government established in Japan in 1947 |
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| democratic, parliamentary, or constitutional monarchy |
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| Island nation expelled from the United Nations in 1971 |
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| Nationalist China (the republic of China) (Taiwan) |
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| Nation given independence by the United States on July 4, 1946 |
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| Military rule, imposed on the Philippines by Marcos in 1972 |
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| The U.S.-Asian mutual defense organization |
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| SEATO (the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) |
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| Rebels who fought a continuing battle against the Philippine government |
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| communist and/or Muslim guerrillas |
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| Prosperous independent city-state at the tip of the Malay Peninsula |
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| Filipino democratic leader, successor of Marcos |
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| New name for the Netherlands East Indies |
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| The five largest islands of Indonesia |
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| Borneo, Sumatra, Irian Jaya (New Guinea), Sulawesi, Java |
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| General who ruled Indonesia from 1968 through 1998 |
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| Guerrillas of Sri Lanka who wage a bloody campaign for an independent homeland |
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| New nation that included Malaya, Sabah, and Sarawak |
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| Indonesia's first president |
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| Communist leader of North Vietnam |
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| The communist guerrillas in South Vietnam |
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| U.S. president who greatly expanded U.S. involvement in Vietnam |
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| Capital of South Vietnam; fell to the communists in 1975 |
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| Refugees from Southeast Asia who attempted to emigrate by sea |
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| Large drain on Thailand's economy |
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| Collective term for the countries that border the Pacific Ocean |
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| Neighbor of Vietnam invaded by U.S. troops |
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| U.S. president who first sent aid to Vietnam |
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| The communist forces of Cambodia who established a brutal rule in the 1970s |
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| Country that invaded Cambodia in 1979 and took control for a decade |
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| Cambodia's ruler from 1941 through 1970, who remained active in exile |
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| Site of crushing French army defeat by the Vietnamese |
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| Communist-led group of Laos |
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| The one nation of Southeast Asia that never was a European colony |
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| Nation to the east of India; it gained independence in 1948 |
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| New name given Burma by its military leaders |
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| The three countries formed out of French Indochina |
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| Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam |
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| Burmese woman who won the Nobel Prize in 1991 while under house arrest |
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