Chapter 34 Ap World History Flashcards

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