Review Modern Asia Quiz
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- "cleansing"
- a forced removal
- Mao Zedong
- communist leader in China
- Great Leap Forward
- Mao Zedong (communist leader) wanted to improve agriculture
- Cultural Revolution
- attempt to stir up zeal for communism
- Tiananmen Square
- Students took it over in April 1989 and wanted democracy
- Richard Nixon
- President, visited communist China in 1970's
- Douglas MacAuthor
- (General) took charge of Japan after WWII
- Ichon
- MacAuthor landed there to push the communists back
- Truman
- didnt agree to nuke china/Korean boarder
- Ho Chi Minh
- leader of communist in vietnam
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- leader of South Vietnam
- tet offensive
- U.S. amd S. Vietnam drive the Notth Vietnamese away from Saigon
- What did communists claim the church was
- superstition
- what did the lady communist think about love
- that it had no place in a classes society
- what did MacAuthor do to reform Japan
- allowed Women to vote, had labor unions, and wrote a new constitution
- how did USA help Japans economy
- U.S. gave japan billions of dollars in aid money, raw materials, and markets
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How did the USSA see china?
*thought* - viewed them as second class citizens
- why did china want U.S. for an ally
- china and russia were having boarder skirmishes, china wanted to have powerful allies
- what happened when china allowed free enterprise
- there GNP quadrupled
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how do we know china is still oppressive
*thought* - no freedom or religion, does not allow any political opposition to communism, and the Tianamen Square incident
- What happened when Korea was divided at the 38th parallel?
- S. Korea held elections and became Republic of Korea; N. Korea wouldn't allow elections and invaded S. Korea
- What did MacArthur propose in Korea?
- to nuke China-Korea border
- Who wanted Viet Nam back after WWII?
- French
- Which part of Viet Nam was Communist?
- North
- Viet Cong - what did they do?
- the Communist troops; sent spies to assassinate S. Vietnamese leaders
- Why did US pull out of Vietman?
- Because of protests against American troops being there
- What happened after America pulled out of Vietnam?
- the Communists took over
- What did Communists teach at Soochow University (including Mao's quote) and were their predictions correct?
- They taught capitalism would fall because machines would take place of laborers and capitalists would forget how to work. "Revolution is not a dinner party." Predictions were not correct because in capitalism, the more one works, the more one prospers.
- What happened to Neng Yee after her husband went to Hong Kong and how did she get an exit permit?
- She was forced to work in a labor camp in place of her husband. She asked to to Hong Kong for maternity leave and miraculously was granted an exit permit.
- Describe three similarities and one difference between Korean War and conflict in Vietnam after WWII.
- Both were struggles against communism. The North was held by the communists and invaded the South protected by US troops. There was a demilitarized zone in both Korea and Vietnam. Difference: We still have troops in South Korea; US pulled out of Vietnam