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| 146707607 | Singapore | Part of the British colony of Malaya with a mostly Chinese population; after World War II emerged as a flourishing, independent city-state. | 0 | |
| 146707608 | Douglas MacArthur | American commander during the war against Japan; headed American occupation government of Japan after the war; commanded United Nations forces during the Korean War. | 1 | |
| 146707609 | Liberal Democratic Party | Conservative political party that monopolized Japanese governments from 1955 into the 1990s. | 2 | |
| 146707610 | Republic of Korea | Southern half of Korea occupied by the United States after World War II; developed parliamentary institutions under authoritarian rulers; underwent major industrial and economic growth after the 1950s. | 3 | |
| 146707611 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | Northern half of Korea dominated by U.S.S.R. after Word War II; formed a Communist dictatorship under Kim Il-Song; attacked South Korea to begin the Korean War. | 4 | |
| 146707612 | Korean War | Fought between 1950 and 1953 between North Korea and its Soviet and Chinese allies and South Korea and United Nations' forces directed by the United States; ended in stalemate. | 5 | |
| 146707613 | Taiwan | Island off the Chinese mainland that became the refuge for Chiang Kai-shek's Guomindang regime; maintained independence with United States' support; rapidly industrialized after the 1950s. | 6 | |
| 146707614 | Hong Kong | British colony in China; became a major commercial and industrial center; returned to China in 1997. | 7 | |
| 146707615 | Hyundai | Major Korean industrial giant; typical of firms producing Korea's economic miracle. | 8 | |
| 146707616 | Lee Kuan Yew | Authoritarian ruler of Singapore for three decades from 1959; presided over major economic development. | 9 | |
| 146707617 | Mass Line | Economic policy of Mao Zedong inaugurated in 1955; led to formation of agricultural cooperatives that then became farming collectives in 1956; peasants lost land gained a few years earlier. | 10 | |
| 146707618 | Great Leap Forward | Economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed small-scale industrialization projects integrated into peasant communities; led to economic disaster and ended in 1960. | 11 | |
| 146707619 | Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Liu Shaoqui | Pragmatists who, along with Zhou Enlai, opposed the Great Leap Forward; wanted to restore state direction and market incentives at the local level. | 12 | |
| 146707620 | Jiang Qing | Wife of Mao Zedong; one of the Gang of Four; opposed pragmatists and supported the Cultural Revolution; arrested and imprisoned for life in 1976. | 13 | |
| 146707621 | Cultural Revolution | Initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 to restore his dominance over the pragmatists; disgraced and even killed bureaucrats and intellectuals; called off in 1968. | 14 | |
| 146707622 | Red Guard | Student brigades active during the Cultural Revolution in supporting Mao Zedong's policies. | 15 | |
| 146707623 | Gang of Four | Jiang Qing and her allies who opposed the pragmatists after the death of Mao Zedong; arrested and sentenced to life in prison. | 16 | |
| 146707624 | Tayson Rebellion | Peasant revolution in southern Vietnam during the 1770s; toppled the Nguyen and the Trinh dynasties. | 17 | |
| 146707625 | Minh Mang | Second ruler of united Vietnam (1802-1841); emphasized Confucianism and persecuted Catholics. | 18 | |
| 146707626 | Vietnamese Nationalist Party (VNQDD) | Middle-class revolutionary organization during the 1920s; committed to violent overthrow of French colonialism; crushed by the French. | 19 | |
| 146707627 | Communist Party of Vietnam | The primary nationalist party after the defeat of the VNQDD in 1929; led from 1920s by Ho Chi Minh. | 20 | |
| 146707628 | Ho Chi Minh | Shifted to a revolution based on the peasantry in the 1930s; presided over the defeat of France in 1954 and the unsuccessful United States intervention in Vietnam. | 21 | |
| 146707629 | Viet Minh | Communist Vietnamese movement; fought the Japanese during Word War II and the French afterwards. | 22 | |
| 146707630 | Vo Nguyen Giap | Military commander of the Viet Minh and the victor at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. | 23 | |
| 146707631 | Ngo Dinh Diem | Became president of South Vietnam with United States' support in the 1950s; overthrown by the military, with U.S. approval. | 24 | |
| 146707632 | Viet Cong | The Communist guerrilla movement in southern Vietnam during the Vietnamese war. | 25 | |
| 146707633 | Pacific Rim Region | including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; typified by rapid growth rates, expanding exports, and industrialization; either Chinese or strongly influenced by Confucian values; considerable reliance on government planning and direction, and limitations on dissent and instability. | 26 | |
| 146707634 | Chiang Ching-kuo | Son and successor of Chiang Kai-shek as ruler of Taiwanese government in 1978; continued authoritarian government; attempted to lessen the gap between followers of his father and indigenous islanders. | 27 | |
| 146707635 | 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. | 28 | |
| 146707636 | Party cadres | Basis for China's Communist government organization; cadre advisors were attached to military contingents at all levels. | 29 | |
| 146707637 | People's Liberation Army | Chinese Communist army; administered much of country under People's Republic of China. | 30 | |
| 146707638 | Pragmatists | Chinese Communist politicians such as Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Liu Shaoqui; determined to restore state direction and market incentives at the local level; opposed Great Leap Forward. | 31 | |
| 146707639 | Deng Xiaoping | One of the more pragmatic, least ideological of the major Communist leaders of China; joined the party as a young man in the 1920s, survived the legendary Long March and persecution during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and emerged as China's most influential leader in the early 1980s. | 32 | |
| 146707640 | Dien Bien Phu | Most significant victory of the Viet Minh over French colonial forces in 1954; gave the Viet Minh control over northern Vietnam. | 33 |
