AP Vocab Flashcards
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| 6241159195 | Pacific Rim | Region including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan; Rapid growth rates, expanding exports and industrialization; Either Chinese or strongly influenced by it; Gov't plays a strong role | 0 | |
| 6241175842 | Taiwan | Island off Chinese mainland that became the refuge for the Nationalist regime of Chiang Kaishek as the Republic of China | 1 | |
| 6241181974 | Republic of Korea | South Korea | 2 | |
| 6241184817 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) | North Korea | 3 | |
| 6241191424 | Hong Kong | Formerly a British colony on the Chinese mainland, returned to China in 1997 | 4 | |
| 6241276862 | Pragmatists | Communist officials in China who opposed the Great Leap Forward | 5 | |
| 6241300237 | Viet Minh & Viet Cong (2 separate terms) | Communist fighters in Vietnam | 6 | |
| 6241314481 | Mikhail Gorbachev | USSR leader in mid 1980s through early 1990s, urged reduction in nuclear arms and generally a more liberal leader for the Soviets | 7 | |
| 6241323034 | Glasnost | Gorbachev's policy of "openness" to create more freedoms of speech in the USSR | 8 | |
| 6241353608 | Perestroika | Gorbachev's policy of economic restructuring in the USSR to create more leeway for private ownership and less state control of industry and farming | 9 | |
| 6241381528 | Multinational corporations | Powerful companies, mainly from the West or Pacific Rim, with production and distribution in many different countries | 10 |