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| 366212226 | Korekiyo Takahashi | Japanese minister of finance during the 1930s; increased government spending to stimulate the economy. | 0 | |
| 366212227 | Tojo Hideki | Japanese general who dominated internal politics from the mid-1930s;.gave the military dominance over civilian cabinets. | 1 | |
| 366212228 | Singapore | part of the British colony of Malaya with a mostly Chinese population; after World War II emerged as a flourishing, independent city-state. | 2 | |
| 366212229 | Douglas MacArthur | America commander during the war against Japan; headed American occupation government of Japan after the war; commanded United Nations forces during the Korean War. | 3 | |
| 366212230 | Liberal Democratic Party | conservative political party that monopolized Japanese governments from 1955 into the 1990s. | 4 | |
| 366212231 | 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. | 5 | |
| 366212232 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | northern half of Korea dominated by USSR after Word War II; formed a communist dictatorship under Kim Il-Song; attacked South Korea to begin the Korean War. | 6 | |
| 366212233 | 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. | 7 | |
| 366212234 | Taiwan | island off the Chinese mainland that became the refuge for Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomindang regime; maintained independence with United State support; rapidly industrialized after the 1950s. | 8 | |
| 366212235 | Hong Kong | British colony in China; became a major commercial and industrial center; returned to China in 1997. | 9 | |
| 366212236 | Hyundai | major Korean industrial giant; typical of firms producing Korea's economic miracle. | 10 | |
| 366212237 | Lee Kuan Yew | authoritarian ruler of Singapore for three decades from 1959; presided over major economic development. | 11 | |
| 366212238 | Pacific Rim states | FIND AND LEAVE IN COMMENTS | 12 | |
| 366212239 | zaibatsu | huge industrial combines created in Japan during the 1890s. Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895): fought in Korea between Japan and Qing China; Japanese victory demonstrated its arrival as new industrial power. | 13 | |
| 366212240 | Chaing Ching-kuo | COMMENT THE DEFINITION | 14 |
