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Unit 15 Asia postWW2
Asia since World War II
Question | Answer |
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This part of Japan's constitution forbids a military except for a small self-defense force | Article 9 |
Location of the protests that led Deng Xiaoping to send in troops and tanks to crush them. | Tiananmen Square |
Method used by China to combat overpopulation | one child policy |
Discrimination on this is illegal in India, but still prevalent in many rural areas | caste system |
After independence, India divided into the Hindu nation of India and the Muslim nation of: | Pakistan |
After losing the Chinese Civil War to Mao Zedong and the Communists, Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists fled here | Taiwan |
Agriculture program of Mao Zedong designed to advance the Chinese economy. It failed horribly resulting in the starvation of 15 million people) | Great Leap Forward |
Campaign by Mao Zedong to eliminate his enemies and to create "Permanent Revolution". Had students carry around Little Red Books, and had Red Guards destroy the "four olds" | Cultural Revolution |
India led this bloc of nations during the Cold War that didn't choose sides between the United States and the Soviet Union | nonaligned |
Disputed territory between India and Pakistan | Kashmir |
Location of fighting between Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus | Sri Lanka |
Communist leader in Vietnam who led resistance against the French and later, the United States. An example of nationalism | Ho Chi Minh |
Leader of the Khmer Rouge, the Cambodian Communist group, responsible for a genocide. | Pol Pot |
Chinese leader who incorporated elements of capitalism into the communist system, but did not incorporate political reforms | Deng Xiaoping |
The partition of India is largely due to conflict between these two groups | Hindus and Muslims |
Refusal to obey a law considered unjust | civil disobedience |
Since the end of World War II, Korea has been divided along this line | 38th parallel |
After World War II, Vietnam is divided along this line | 17th parallel |
In 1997, this city was turned over to China by Great Britain as scheduled by treaty | Hong Kong |