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| 6249708944 | Pacific Rim | Region including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan; typified by rapid growth rates, expanding exports, and industrializtion; either Chinese or strongly influenced by Confucian values; considerable reliance on government planning and direction, limitations on dissent and instability. | 0 | |
| 6249708945 | Taiwan | Island off Chinese mainland; became refuge for nationalist chinese regime under Chiang Kai-Shek as Republic of China in 1948; successfully retained independance with aid of United States; rapidly industrialized after 1950s. | 1 | |
| 6249708946 | Chiang Kai-Shek | Guomindang government figure who was exiled to the island of taiwan; Gained independance for the island naion with help of United States. | 2 | |
| 6249708947 | Occupation of Japan | After the defeat of Japan in World War II, the United States led the Allies in the occupation and rehabilitation of the Japanese state. Between 1945 and 1952, the U.S. occupying forces, led by General Douglas A. MacArthur, enacted widespread military, political, economic, and social reforms. | 3 | |
| 6249708948 | Douglas MacArthur | An American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II (1939-1945), oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan and led United Nations forces in the Korean War (1950-1953). | 4 | |
| 6249708949 | Liberal Democratic Party | Monopolized Japanese government from its formation in 1955 into the 1990s; largely responsible for the economic reconstruction of Japan. | 5 | |
| 6249708950 | Kim Il-Sung | The supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea, for 46 years, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994.[2] He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to 1994. He was also the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea from 1949 to 1994 (titled as chairman from 1949 to 1966 and as general secretary after 1966). Coming to power after the overthrow of Japanese rule in 1945, he authorized the invasion of South Korea in 1950,[3] triggering a defense of South Korea by the United Nations led by the United States. | 6 | |
| 6249708951 | Syngman Rhee | A South Korean statesman, the first president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and the first President of the Republic of Korea. | 7 | |
| 6249708952 | Korean War | Fought from 1950 to 1953; North supported by USSR and later People's Republic of China; South supported by United States and small international United Nations force; ended in stalemate and continued division of Korea. | 8 | |
| 6249708953 | Hong Kong | British colon on Chinese mainland; major commercial center; agreement reached between Britain and People's Republic of China returned colony to China in 1997. | 9 | |
| 6249708954 | Republic of China | A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong. | 10 | |
| 6249708955 | Chiang Ching-kuo | Son and successor of Chiang Kai-Shek as ruler of Taiwanese government in 1978; continued authoritarian government; attempted to lessen gap between followers of his father and indigenous islanders. | 11 | |
| 6249708956 | Singapore | An independent republic comprising this island and a few adjacent islets: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British crown colony (1946-59) and member of the federation of Malaysia (1963-65). | 12 | |
| 6249708957 | Lee Kuan Yew | Ruler of Singapore from independence in 1959 through three decades; established tightly controlled authoritarian government; ruled through people's Action party to suppress political diversity. | 13 | |
| 6249708958 | "Little Tigers" | The highly developed economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. These regions were the first newly industrialized countries. | 14 | |
| 6249708959 | Mao Zedong | Chinese Communist leader and theorist. A founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1921), he commanded troops in the Chinese Civil War (1927-1949) and proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949. | 15 | |
| 6249708960 | People's Republic of China | China as we know it today. | 16 | |
| 6249708961 | Party cadres | A group of trained or otherwise qualified personnel capable of forming, training, or leading an expanded organization, as a religious or political faction, or a skilled work force. | 17 | |
| 6249708962 | People's Liberation Army | Unified organization of China's land, sea, and air forces. It is one of the largest military forces in the world. Traces its roots to the 1927 Nanchang Uprising of the communists against the Nationalists. | 18 | |
| 6249708963 | Mass line | Economic policy of Mao Zedong; led to formation of agricultural cooperatives in 1955; cooperatives became farming collectives in 1956. | 19 | |
| 6249708964 | "Hundred Flowers" campaign | Movement begun in May 1956 within the communist government of China to lift the restrictions imposed upon Chinese intellectuals and thus grant greater freedom of thought and speech. | 20 | |
| 6249708965 | Great Leap Forward | Economic Policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed industrialization of small-scale projects integrated into pleasant communes; led to economic disaster; ended in 1960. | 21 | |
| 6249708966 | Zhou Enlai | After Mao Zedong, the most important leader of the Communist party in China from the 1930s until his death in 1976; premier of China from 1954; notable as perhaps the most cosmapolitain and moderate of the inner circle of Communist leaders. | 22 | |
| 6249708967 | 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. | 23 | |
| 6249708968 | Jiang Qing | Wife of Mao Zedong; one of Gang of Four; opposed pragmatists and supported cultural revolution of 1965; arrested and imprisoned for life in 1976. | 24 | |
| 6249708969 | Madame Chiang Kai-Shek | A Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (ROC), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. | 25 | |
| 6249708970 | Cultural Revolution | Movement initiated in 1965 by Mao Zedong to restore his dominance over pragmatists; used mobs to ridicule Mao's political allies to discredit Mao's political enemies. | 26 | |
| 6249708971 | Red Guard | Student brigades utilized by Mao Zedong and his political allies during the Cultural Revolution to discredit Mao's political enemies. | 27 | |
| 6249708972 | Gang of Four | Jiang 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. | 28 | |
| 6249708973 | Ho Chi Minh | Also known as Nguyen Ai Quoc among other aliases; led Vietnamese Communist party in struggle for liberation from French and U.S. dominance and to unify north and south Vietnam. | 29 | |
| 6249708974 | Viet Minh | Communist-dominated vietnamese nationalist movement; operated out of base in southern China during WWII; employed guerrilla tactics similar to the Maoist in China. | 30 | |
| 6249708975 | Dien Bien Phu | Most significant victory of the Viet Minh over French colonial forces in 1954; gave the Viet Minh control of northern Vietnam. | 31 | |
| 6249708976 | Ngo Dinh Diem | Political leader of South Vietnam; established as president with united states support in the 1950s; opposed Communist government of North Vietnam; overnthrown by military coup approved by United States. | 32 | |
| 6249708977 | 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. | 33 |
