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| 756541405 | Pacific Rim | Region including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan; typified by rapid growth rates, 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 | |
| 756541406 | Taiwan | Island off Chinese mainland; became refuge for Nationalist Chinese regime under Chiang Kai-shek as Republic of China in 1948; successfully retained independence with aid of United States; rapidly industrialized after 1950s | 1 | |
| 756541407 | Liberal Democratic party | Monopolized Japanese government from its formation in 1955 into the 1990s; largely responsible for the economic reconstruction of Japan | 2 | |
| 756541408 | Republic of Korea | Southern half of Korea sponsored by United States following World War II; headed by nationalist Syngman Rhee; developed parliamentary institutions but maintained authoritarian government; defended by UN forces during Korean War; underwent industrialization and economic emergence after 1950s | 3 | |
| 756541409 | People's Democratic Republic of Korea | Northern half of Korea dominated by USSR; long headed by Kim II-Sung; attacked south in 1950 and initiated Korean War; retained independence as a communist state after the war | 4 | |
| 756541410 | 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 | 5 | |
| 756541411 | Hong Kong | British colony on Chinese mainland; major commercial center; agreement reached between Britain and People's Republic of China returned colony to China in 1997 | 6 | |
| 756541412 | Hyundai | Example of huge industrial groups that wield great power in modern South Korea; virtually governed Korea's southeastern coast; vertical economic organization with ships, supertankers, factories, schools, and housing units | 7 | |
| 756541413 | 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 | 8 | |
| 756541414 | 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 | 9 | |
| 756541415 | 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 | 10 | |
| 756541416 | Lin Biao | (1907-1971) Chinese commander under Mao; trained at Chiang Kaishek's Whampoa Academy in the 1920s | 11 | |
| 756541417 | party cadres | Basis for China's communist government organization; cadre advisors were attached to military contingents at all levels | 12 | |
| 756541418 | People's Liberation Army | Chinese Communist army; administered much of country under People's Republic of China | 13 | |
| 756541419 | Mass Line | Economic policy of Mao Zedong; led to formation of agricultural cooperatives in 1955; cooperatives became farming collectives in 1956 | 14 | |
| 756541420 | Great Leap Forward | Economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed industrialization of small-scale projects integrated into peasant communities; led to economic disaster; ended in 1960 | 15 | |
| 756541421 | pragmatists | Chinese Communist politicians such as Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Liu Shaoqui; determined to restore state direction and market incentives at the local level; opposed Great Leap Forward | 16 | |
| 756541422 | 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 cosmopolitan and moderate of the inner circle of Communist leaders | 17 | |
| 756541423 | Liu Shaoqui | Chinese Communist pragmatist; with Deng Xiaoping, came to power in 1959 after Mao was replaced; determined to restore state direction and market incentives at local level; purged in 1966 as Mao returned to power | 18 | |
| 756541424 | 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 | 19 | |
| 756541425 | Jiang Qing | (1914-1991) Wife of Mao Zedong; one of Gang of Four; opposed pragmatists and supported Cultural Revolution of 1965; arrested and imprisoned for life in 1976 | 20 | |
| 756541426 | Cultural Revolution | Movement initiated in 1965 by Mao Zedong to restore his dominance over pragmatists; used mobs to ridicule Mao's political rivals; campaign was called off in 1968 | 21 | |
| 756541427 | Red Guard | Student brigades utilized by Mao Zedong and his political allies during the Cultural Revolution to discredit Mao's political enemies | 22 | |
| 756541428 | 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 | 23 | |
| 756541429 | Tayson Rebellion | Peasant revolution in southern Victnam during the late 1770s; succeeded in toppling the Nguyen dynasty; subsequently unseated the Trinh dynasty of northern Vietnam | 24 | |
| 756541430 | Nguyen Anh | (1762-1820) Last surviving member of Nguyen dynasty following Tayson Rebellion in Vietnam; with French support retook southern Vietnam; drove Tayson from northern Vietnam by 1802; proclaimed himself emperor with capital at Hue; also known as Gia Long | 25 | |
| 756541431 | Minh Mang | Second emperor of a united Vietnam; successor of Nguyen Anh; ruled from 1820 to 1841; sponsored emphasis of Confucianism; persecuted Catholics | 26 | |
| 756541432 | Vietnamese Nationalist Party | Also known as the Vietnamese Quoc Dan Dong or VNQDD; active in 1920s as revolutionary force committed to violent overthrow of French colonialism | 27 | |
| 756541433 | Communist party of Vietnam | Originally a wing of nationalist movement; became primary nationalist party after decline of VNQDD in 1929; led in late 1920s by Nguyen Ai Quoc, alias Ho Chi Minh | 28 | |
| 756541434 | Ho Chi Minh | Also known as Nguyen Ai Quoc; led Vietnamese Communist party in struggle for liberation from French and U.S. dominance and to unify north and south Vietnam | 29 | |
| 756541435 | Viet Minh | Communist-dominated Vietnamese nationalist movement; operated out of base in southern China during World War II; employed guerrilla tactics similar to the Maoists in China | 30 | |
| 756541436 | Vo Nguyen Giap | Chief military commander of the Viet Minh; architect of the Vietnamese victory over the French at Dien Dien Phu in 1954 | 31 | |
| 756541437 | 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 | |
| 756541438 | Ngo Dinh Diem | Political leader of South Vietnam; established as president with United States support in the 1950s; opposed Communist government of North Vietnam; overthrown by military coup approved by United States | 33 | |
| 756541439 | 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 | 34 |
