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The American general who wrote a Constitution for Japan after WWII.

Who was Douglas MacArthur?

The parliament or legislative assembly of Japan.

What is the Diet?

This type of political and social system of land for service was finally replaced in Japan after WWII.

What was feudalism?

This was the political party that dominated Japanese politics after WWII.

What is the Liberal Democratic Party or the LDP ?

Two reasons why Japan was successful economically after WWII and the devastation of the two atomic bombs. What was educated workers, homogenous society, modern factories, no money for defense ?

This was the type of government practiced by Mao Zedong in China after WWII.

What was a Totalitarian Communist Dictatorship?

This was Mao Zedong’s economic program to move China forward in agriculture and industrial output.

What was the Great Leap Forward? ( really backwards)

This was Mao Zedong’s backlash at intellectuals and the new middle class of China.

What was the Cultural Revolution? ( Dressed up all thesmart people in dunce caps)

This was the American president who visited China in 1972.

Who was Nixon?

This event marked an end to the democracy movement in China in 1989.

What was the massacre at Tiananmen Square?

China considers both of these islands to be part of Communist China.

What are Hong King ( now part ofChina) and Taiwan or Formosa?

He was the leader of Taiwan after WWII.

Who was Jiang Jieshi or Chiang Kai Shek?

This is the country that dominated the island of Taiwan until after 1945.

What was Japan and now China is trying?

This is one of the main service industries in Hong Kong and a reason for the modern skyline.

What is banking or financial services?

This is the smallest of Asian Tigers and sits at the tip of the Malay Peninsula.

What is Singapore?

This the line of latitude that divides North and South Korea.

What is the 38th Parallel?

He was the American General who organized and led the brilliant landing at Inchon and defeated the North Koreans.Who was Gen. Douglas MacArthur?

He was the dictator of South Korea after WWII.

Who was Syngman Rhee?

He became the dictator of North Korea after his father Kim Il Sung died.

Who is Kim Jung Il?( He has nuclear weapons and is crazy enough to use them)

These are the three Asian giants that border North and South Korea.

What is Russia, Japan, and China?

This sign of a healthy economy jumped in Japan between 1950 and 1975 to rival the United States.

What is the Gross Domestic Product or sometimes the Gross National Product?

This is the theory that dominated American foreign policy after WWII and stated that if one country becomes communist others will follow.What was the Domino Theory?

These were the communist guerillas in Cambodia led by the ruthless Pol Pot.

Who were the Khmer Rouge?

This was the written bible for many young Chinese communists during the Cultural Revolution.

What was Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book?

This was the economic recovery program introduced by Deng Xiaoping which called for improvements in agriculture, industry, science, and defense. What were the Four Modernizations?

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This was the battle where the French were defeated and forced to leave Vietnam.

What was the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?

He was the leader of Vietnamese resistance to colonial rule and the communist leader of North Vietnam. What was Ho Chi Minh?

This was the agreement that divided Vietnam into North And South Vietnam in 1954.

What were the Geneva Accords?

He was the Catholic President of South Vietnam, supported by the United States.

Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?

They were the Vietnamese refugees who fled the harsh Communist government of Vietnam. Who were the Boat People?

This was the name for the Communist land reformers in the Philippines.

Who were the Huk?

He became the Dictator of the Philippines from 1965 until 1986.

Who was Ferdinand Marcos?

She took over the democratic movement in the Philippines after her husband’s murder to become the first female president. Who was Corazon Aquino?

This was a U.S. military base on the Philippines before the withdrawal of military troops.

Clark Air Base or Subic Bay Naval Base.

The Moro National Liberation Front want Mindanao to become this kind of independent religious state. What is Islamic?

This was the supply line that went through Cambodia and supplied the Vietcong in South Vietnam during the war. What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

These were the communist guerillas in Cambodia.

Who were the Khmer Rouge?

He was the ruthless leader of the Khmer Rouge who executed more than a million people, a third of the population.

Who was Pol Pot?

These were the communist guerillas who seized power in Laos.

Who were the Pathet Lao?

This country resisted a communist take over while remaining a strong ally of the U.S. and the ousted right wing governments of Cambodia and Laos. What was Thailand?

This developing nation was renamed “ the People’s Country” I suppose because it was a country and it had people. ( not a creative group of military thugs) What was from Burma to Now, Myanmar?

This female Nobel Peace Prize recipient was recently released from jail in Myanmar.

Who was Aung San Suu Kyi?

This developing nation is the fourth most populous, largely Islamic, and divided into 13,000 islands.

What is Indonesia?

This island in Indonesia with a predominate Roman Catholic/Portuguese heritage wants independence. What is East Timor on the island of Timor? Finally obtained in 1999 and a republic in 2002

This is the organization formed by Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Brunei. What is ASEAN or the Association of South East Asian Nations in 1967 ?

This is the geological feature that dominates many of the Pacific Rim countries giving it the nickname “Ring of Fire”

What are volcanoes?

These three countries dominate the Pacific Rim economy in the new 21st century.What are China, Japan, and the United States? [ you could add Canada as well ]

These are the four continents that form the Pacific Rim.

What is Asia, North America, South America and Australia or Oceana?

These are the five most populous nations along the Pacific Rim.

What are China, Russia, Indonesia, Japan, and the US?

These are the two most popular tourist spots along the Pacific Rim.

What are Fiji and French Polynesia or Tahiti?