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| 6482282191 | 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 | |
| 6482293890 | 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 | |
| 6482307690 | Liberal democratic party | Conservative political party that monopolized Japanese governments from 1955 into the 1990s | 2 | |
| 6482315154 | 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 | |
| 6482348096 | Democratic People's 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 | |
| 6482364252 | 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 | |
| 6482378049 | 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 | |
| 6482396400 | Hong kong | British colony in china; became a major commercial and industrial center; returned to china in 1997 | 7 | |
| 6482405768 | Hyundai | Major Korean industrial giant; typical of firms producing korea's economic miracle | 8 | |
| 6482415748 | Lee kaun yew | Authoritarian ruler of Singapore for three decades from 1959; presided over major economic development | 9 | |
| 6482424031 | 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 | |
| 6482447740 | Great leap forward | Economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed small-scale industrial projects integrated into peasant communities; led to economic disaster and ended in 1960 | 11 | |
| 6482477942 | 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 | |
| 6482490793 | Liang Qing | Wife of Mao Zedong; one of the Gan of Four; opposed pragmatists and supported the Cultural Revolution; arrested and imprisoned for life in 1976 | 13 | |
| 6482502484 | People's Liberation Army | Chinese communist army; administered much of the county under the Peope's Republic of China | 14 | |
| 6482511284 | Cultural revolution | Initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 to restore his dominance over the pragmatists; disgraced and even killed bureaucrats and intellectuals; killed off in 1968 | 15 | |
| 6482525437 | Lin Biao | Chinese commander under Mao; trained at Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa academy in the 1920s | 16 | |
| 6482536583 | 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 | 17 | |
| 6482549975 | Red guard | Student brigades active during the cultural revolution in supporting Mao Zedong's policies | 18 | |
| 6482555738 | Gang of four | Jiang Ching who opposed the pragmatists after the death of Mao Zedong; arrested and sentenced to life in prison | 19 | |
| 6482564721 | Tayson rebellion | Peasant revolution in southern Vietnam during the 1770s; toppled the Nguyen and Trinh dynasties | 20 | |
| 6482577006 | Nguyen Anh (Gia long) | With French support, unified Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty in 1802 with the capital at hue | 21 | |
| 6482583210 | Minh Mang | Second ruler of united Vietnam; emphasized Confucianism and persecuted Catholics | 22 | |
| 6482600177 | Vietnamese Nationalist Party middle- class revolutionary organization during the 1920s; committed to violent overthrow of French colonialism; crushed by the French | 23 | ||
| 6482600178 | Communist party of vietnam | The primary nationalist party after the defeat of the vnqdd in 1929; led from 1920s by Ho Chi Minh | 24 | |
| 6482612524 | 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 | 25 | |
| 6482627233 | Viet Minh | Communist Vietnamese movement; fought the Japanese during World War II and the French afterwards | 26 | |
| 6482634991 | Come Nguyen Giap | Military commander of the Viet Minh and the victor of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 | 27 | |
| 6482645945 | Ngo Dinh Diem | Became the president of south Vietnam with the United States' support in the 1950s; overthrown by the military, with us approval | 28 | |
| 6482653700 | Viet cong | The communist guerilla movement in southern Vietnam during the Vietnamese war | 29 |
