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| 153402196 | Cultural Revolution | Movement initiated in 1965 by Mao Zedong to restore his dominance over pragmatists; used mobs to ridicule Mao's political rivals; campaign was called off in 1968 | 0 | |
| 153402197 | Dien Bien Phu | Most significant victory of the Viet Minh over French colonial forces in 1954; gave the Viet Minh control of northern Vietnam | 1 | |
| 153402198 | Gang of Four | Jian Qing and four political allies who attempted to seize control of Communist government in China from the pragmatists; arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1976 following Mao Zedong's death | 2 | |
| 153402199 | Great Leap Forward | Economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed industrialization of small-scale projects integrated into peasant communes; led to economic disaster, ended in 1960 | 3 | |
| 153402200 | Guomindang | Chinese Nationalist party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1919; drew support from local warlords and Chinese criminal underworld; initially forged alliance with Communists in 1924; dominated by Chiang Kai-shek after 1925 | 4 | |
| 153402201 | Ho Chi Minh | Also known as Nguyen Ai Quoc; led Vietnamese communist party in struggle for liberation from French and U.S. dominance and to unify north and south Vietnam | 5 | |
| 153402202 | Jiang Qing | Wife of Mao Zedong; one of Gang of Four; oopposed pragmatists and supported Cultural Revolution of 1965; arrested and imprisoned for life in 1976 | 6 | |
| 153402203 | Long March | Communist escape from Hunan province during civil war with Guomindang in 1934; center of Communist power moved to Shaanxi province; firmly established Mao Zedong as head of the Communist party in China | 7 | |
| 153402204 | Mao Zedong | Communist leader in revolutionary China; advocated rural reform and role of peasantry in Nationalist revolution; influenced by Li Dazhao Communist reaction against guomindang purges in 1920s, culminating in Long March of 1934; seized control of all of mainland China by 1949; initiated Great Leap Forward in 1958 | 8 | |
| 153402205 | May Fourth movement | Resistance to Japanese encroachments in China began on this date in 1919; spawned movement of intellectuals aimed at transforming China into a liberal democracy; rejected Confucianism | 9 | |
| 153402206 | Ngo Dinh Diem | Leader of South Vietnam, 1954-1963; supported by United States, but not by Vietnamese Buddhist majority; assassinated in 1963 | 10 | |
| 153402207 | People's Liberation Army | Chinese Communist army; administered much of country under People's Republic of China | 11 | |
| 153402208 | People's Republic of China | Communist government of mainland China; proclaimed in 1949 following military success of Mao Zedong over forces of Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang | 12 | |
| 153402209 | Red Guard | Student brigades utilized by Mao Zedong and his political allies during the Cultural Revolution to discredit Mao's political enemies | 13 | |
| 153402210 | Sun Yat-sen | Head of Revolutionary Alliance, organization that led 1911 revolt against Qing dynasty in China; briefly elected president in 1911, but yielded in favor of Yuan Shikai in 1912; created Nationalist party of China (Guomindang) in 1919; died in 1925 | 14 | |
| 153402211 | Tayson Rebellion | Peasant revolution in southern Vietnam during the late 1770s; succeeded in toppling the Nguyen dynasty; subsequently unseated the Trinh dynasty of northern Vietnam | 15 | |
| 153402212 | Viet Cong | Name given by Diem regime to communist guerrilla movement in southern Vietnam; reorganized with northern Vietnamese assistance as the National Liberation Front in 1958 | 16 | |
| 153402213 | Viet Minh | Communist-dominated Vietnamese nationalist movement; operated out of base in southern China during World War II; employed guerrilla tactics similar to the Maoists in China | 17 | |
| 153402214 | Whampoa Military Academy | Founded in 1924; military wing of the Guomindang; first head of the academy was Chiang Kai-shek | 18 | |
| 153402215 | Yuan Shikai | Warlord in northern China after fall of Qing dynaty; hoped to seize imperial throne; president of China after 1912; resigned in the face of Japanese invasion in 1916 | 19 |
