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Asia History Vocab
Vocabulary for Asian History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Leader of the Vietnamese independence movement. | Ho Chi Minh |
| Communist nationalist group that fought the French and Japanese to gain independence for Vietnam. | Viet Minh |
| The belief that if one country fell to communism, then its neighbors would also. | Domino Theory |
| The US desire to keep communism in the countries that already had it. | Containment |
| Leader of the Indian independence movement. He believed in non-violent resistance. | Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| Mao's plan to modernize the economy of China. It focused on industry and agriculture. The plan was a massive failure. | Great Leap Forward |
| Mao's plan to change the cultural of China by eliminating old ideas and enemies of communism. It caused massive social disruption in China and the deaths of over one million people. Many intellectuals fled the country, were imprisoned, or killed. | Cultural Revolution |
| Leader of the Communists in the Chinese Civil War and the first leader of communist China. He was the man behind the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. | Mao Zedong |
| Leader of the Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War. | Chiang Kai Shek |
| Leader of China after the death of Mao. He introduced more economic freedom to China through his program of the "Four Modernizations". He was also the leader that ordered the Tiananmen Square Massacre. | Deng Xiaoping |
| A government crackdown on Chinese students who were protesting for more democratic and political rights in China. | Tiananmen Square Massacre |
| A group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities. | Commune |
| The theory and practice of the ownership of land and the means of production by the people or the government. | Collectivism |
| Pride in your people or culture. It is often the motivation behind independence movements. | Nationalism |
| Leader of the US occupation forces of Japan. Also the first leader of the UN troops in the Korean War. | Douglas MacArthur |
| Founder of North Korea. Under his rule, North Korea invaded South Korea and started the Korean War. | Kim Il-sung |
| Emperor of Japan during World War II. He became the figurehead of the new constitutional monarchy after the war. | Emperor Hirohito |
| The constitution that General MacArthur's staff wrote during the US occupation of Japan. | MacArthur Constitution |
| Term for Gandhi's idea of non-violent non-compliance during the Indian independence movement | Satyagraha |
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