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| 6618554885 | Pacific Rim | region including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan; typified by rapid economic growth, expanding exports, and industrialization; either Chinese or strongly influenced by Confucian values; considerable reliance on government planning and direction, limitations on dissent and instability. | 0 | |
| 6618557565 | Taiwan | island off the Chinese mainland that became the refuge for Chiang Kai-shek's Guomindang regime; maintained independence with U.S. support; rapidly industrialized after the 1950s. | 1 | |
| 6618559402 | Liberal Democratic Party | moderate political party that monopolized Japanese governments from 1955 into the 1990s. | 2 | |
| 6618561354 | 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 | |
| 6618566975 | People's Democratic Republic of Korea | northern half of Korea, dominated by U.S.S.R. after World War II; formed a communist dictatorship under Kim Il-Song; attacked South Korea to begin the Korean War. | 4 | |
| 6618569396 | Korean War | fought from 1950 to 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 | |
| 6618572216 | Hong Kong | British colony in China; became a major commercial and industrial center; returned to China in 1997. | 6 | |
| 6618575870 | Hyundai | major Korean industrial giant; typical of firms producing Korea's economic miracle. | 7 | |
| 6618578928 | Chiang Ching-kuo | son and successor of Chiang Kai-shek as ruler of Taiwanese government in 1978; continued authoritarian government; attempted to reduce gap between followers of his father and indigenous islanders. | 8 | |
| 6618580461 | Lee Kuan Yew | authoritarian ruler of Singapore for three decades from 1959; presided over major economic development. | 9 | |
| 6618583570 | People's Republic of China | communist China; founded in 1949 by Mao Zedong. | 10 | |
| 6618587411 | Lin Bao | one of Mao Zedong's military associates. | 11 | |
| 6618589470 | party cadres | basis of China's communist government organization; cadre advisors were attached to military contingents at all levels. | 12 | |
| 6618593471 | People's Liberation Army | military and dominant arm of the communist structure in China. | 13 | |
| 6618595940 | 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. | 14 | |
| 6618598578 | 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. | 15 | |
| 6618602651 | pragmatists | Chinese communist politicians determined to restore state direction and market incentives at the local level; opposed the Great Leap Forward. | 16 | |
| 6618604924 | Zhou Enlai | premier of China from 1954; notable as perhaps the most cosmopolitan and moderate of the inner circle Communist leaders. | 17 | |
| 6618606630 | Liu Shaoqui | Chinese communist pragmatist; with Deng Xiaoping, came to power in 1959 after Mao was replaced; purged in 1966 as Mao returned to power. | 18 | |
| 6618608654 | Deng Xiaoping | one of the more pragmatic, least ideological of the major Communist leaders of China; emerged as China's most influential leader in the early 1980s. | 19 | |
| 6618611395 | 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. | 20 | |
| 6618614571 | 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. | 21 | |
| 6618617627 | Red Guard | student brigades active during the Cultural Revolution in support of Mao Zedong's policies. | 22 | |
| 6618622003 | 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. | 23 | |
| 6618630811 | Tayson Rebellion | peasant revolution in southern Vietnam during the 1770s; toppled the Nguyen and the Trinh dynasties. | 24 | |
| 6618633327 | Nguyen Anh (Gia Long) | with French support, unified Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty in 1802, with the capital at Hue. | 25 | |
| 6618634701 | Minh Mang | second ruler of united Vietnam (1802-1841); emphasized Confucianism and persecuted Catholics. | 26 | |
| 6618639129 | Vietnamese Nationalist Party (VNQDD) | middle-class revolutionary organization during the 1920s; committed to the violent overthrow of French colonialism; crushed by the French. | 27 | |
| 6618642070 | Communist Party of Vietnam | the primary nationalist party after the defeat of the VNQDD in 1929; led from 1920s by Ho Chi Minh. | 28 | |
| 6618645796 | Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Ai Quoc) | shifted to a revolution based on the peasantry in the 1930s; presided over the defeat of France in 1954 and the unsuccessful U.S. intervention in Vietnam. | 29 | |
| 6618647603 | Viet Minh | Communist Vietnamese movement; fought the Japanese during Word War II and the French afterward. | 30 | |
| 6618650006 | Vo Nguyen Giap | military commander of the Viet Minh and the victor at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. | 31 | |
| 6618651897 | Dien Bien Phu | most significant victory of the Viet Minh over French colonial forces in 1954; gave the Viet Minh control of northern Vietnam. | 32 | |
| 6618654211 | Ngo Dinh Diem | became president of South Vietnam with U.S. support in the 1950s; overthrown by the military with U.S. approval. | 33 | |
| 6618656547 | Viet Cong | the communist guerrilla movement in South Vietnam during the Vietnamese war. | 34 |
