East Asia: Post-World War II
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| 169671136 | Liberal Democratic Party | dominated politics in Japan through the 1990's | 0 | |
| 169671137 | Japan, Incorporated | nickname for Japan after WWII because it was seen as a business rather than a country | 1 | |
| 169671138 | Equal Employment Law | Japanese law that gave women equal emploment rights | 2 | |
| 169671139 | Kyoto Accords | Document that countries signed that said they would limit pollution | 3 | |
| 169671140 | Asian Tigers | small Asian countries that are growing in economic power; South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore | 4 | |
| 169671141 | People's Republic of China | Communist gov't est. by Mao in China | 5 | |
| 169718589 | Cadres | Chinese military officers who administered an area | 6 | |
| 169671142 | Sino-Soviet Split | fought over borders, don't really get along | 7 | |
| 169671143 | Hundred Flowers Bloom | critics in China were encouraged to speak out against the gov't and were later killed | 8 | |
| 169671144 | Great Leap Forward | Program est. by Mao to revitalize the economy by industrializing the countryside => FAILED | 9 | |
| 169671145 | Cultural Revolution | Campaign in China instituted by Mao in order to get rid of his opponents and instill revolutionary and communist values in the younger generation | 10 | |
| 169671146 | Deng Xiaoping | moderate Chinese leader and sucessor of Mao who allowed capitalism, got rid of communes, and instituted the One-Child Policy | 11 | |
| 169671147 | Detente | relaxed relations between the USA and the USSR, ended when the USSR invaded Afghanistan | 12 | |
| 169671148 | SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, resisted by the US senate | 13 | |
| 169671149 | Glasnost | "openness", freedom to criticize the gov't, led to protests and independent E. Europe and Russian Republics | 14 | |
| 169671150 | Perestroika | economic restructuring, allowed private ownership and capitalism but corruption and the black market made it difficult | 15 | |
| 169671151 | Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) | the name for the 15 independent countries created after the fall of the USSR | 16 | |
| 169671152 | Vaclav Havel | writer/critic elected president in Hungary | 17 | |
| 169671153 | Solidarity | Polish worker union that fought the communist gov't | 18 | |
| 169671154 | Lech Walesa | led the Polish Solidarity union | 19 | |
| 169671155 | Dayton Accords | fragile peace agreement that created 6 (today there are 8) independent countries out of Yugoslavia | 20 | |
| 169725017 | Red Guard | student armies who supported Mao | 21 | |
| 169725018 | Little Red Book | Mao's quotations of the proper Communist living; carried by the Red Guard | 22 | |
| 169725019 | Tiananmen Massacre | students were killed in China while protesting for democratic rights | 23 |
